¶ Atom As Solar System
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The smallest known orderly phenomenon in the Universe is the atom. The diameter of the atom’s nucleus is the smallest known distance measurement in the Universe. The diameter of the outer shell of the atom is approximately 10,000 times that of its nuclear diameter. The ratio of diameter sizes of the atomic nucleus and the diameter of its outer electron orbit (shell) is 1 to 10,000. This also is somewhat the same order of magnitude as the 8000-mile diameter of the Earth in relation to its own Sun-orbiting diameter of 184 million mile, i.e., 1 to 23,000. But the Earth is not the solar system’s nucleus. The Sun is the planetary nucleus. The Earth orbits the Sun at a diameter that is only 230 times the diameter of the Sun. Pluto, however, is the outermost known planet. ergo, it is the Sun-nucleated system’s outer-shell-describing planet, and Pluto’s orbital diameter is 9000 times the diameter of the Sun. Thus, the solar system discloses approximately the same nucleus-to-shell diameters ratio as that of the atoms, and may indeed do so exactly, for there are new calculations suggesting a tenth planet at possibly the exact 10,000-Sun diameter’s distance.
