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Have you ever thought about the possibility that the sun is the nucleus of an atom and the planets are electrons?

If so, take a look at this: http://current.com/items/89767193/jupiter_is_an_electron.htm

I swear, if there wasn't a 200 page book full of this shit, I'd be certain this was a troll.  It is pretty funny anyway.

Here's a video of Professor Wacko explaining his "hugely significant" theory:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ucRuZ9lKM0s

Here's the reasoning in a nutshell:

1) The solar system looks a lot like an atom, in that there's something in the middle and things spinning around it. The sun and the inner planets are the nucleus and the outer planets are the electron shell.  (Never mind that the diameter of the orbit of Neptune is only about 20 times the diameter of the orbit of Mars, but the diameter of an atom is around 10,000 times the diameter of its nucleus.)

2) Since there are four outer planets, the solar system is obviously really a beryllium atom!  The ratio of the size of the solar system and the size of a beryllium atom (calculated to be 5.625 x 10^22) is called the "Reality Scale Constant" S.

3) Since this number is c^2.68, where c is the speed of light, then CLEARLY the "true" value of S is c^e, where e is "you-ler"'s constant 2.7128..., even though this theoretical value is different from the observed value by a factor of 2.  So either Neptune's orbit has been miscalculated by hundreds of millions of miles, or the diameter of a beryllium atom is only half as big as theoretical and experimental evidence suggests. (Also, S is a dimensionless constant, and c^e has a dimension, i.e. it is a speed raised to an irrational power, which is in itself ridiculous.)

(Sidenote: I love how this guy thinks using greek letters everywhere makes him look smart)

4) Now either magic or a serious logical fallacy (page 80 in his book, you tell me if I'm missing something), he claims that if you shrink a solar system down to an atom via his Reality Constant, the mass density somehow increases, and in a page-long, extremely difficult calculation (i.e. a middle school algebra calculation done step-by-step for some reason), he "proves" that the mass of a planet when shrunk down to atomic size decreases by a factor of 1/S^2.  Then (Oh miracle!) the theoretical mass of Jupiter after being transformed into an atom, measured in kilograms, is ballpark-equal to the charge of an electron measured in Coulombs.

Why Jupiter should be the planet which corresponds to an electron and not, say, Neptune which is 10x smaller, is not explained.

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