Is anyone else disturbed by the persistence of orbital systems in Nature?

[msc545]

Like this:

Atoms consist of a nucleus with one or more orbiting electrons.
Planetary systems typically consist of a star with one or more planets orbiting it.

Galaxies orbit a common point - sometimes a black hole. ETC.

All of this seems a little too consistent to be an accident.

[richardcory]

The systems you describe are all controlled by 1/r potentials (electromagnetism, gravity), and 1/r potential (1/r^2 force) is a natural consequence of 3 space-like dimensions. So all are driven by the same underlying math.

Atoms of course are a little different because the electrons don't orbit in the classical sense. The ground state of a hydrogen atom has no angular momentum, the electron is just sort of a cloud around the proton - as close as quantum mechanics allows it to get.

The is of course related to the (simplified explantions) question earlier

[slatyb]

Atoms are not orbital systems. Planet systems and galaxies are both bound by gravity.

[msc545]

you are right.

[LaFemmeFatale_1]

I don’t think anything’s an accident.

A bit out of topic… but what bothers me is that, what if regardless of the evolution of our brain - we’ll go through, there will still be things out of reach for our consciousness, because simply understanding them goes beyond human mind.

Or if we were truly able to understand, we’d turn crazy.

Like the Demodex mites living on some human skin, they are part of our whole microbiome, have their ecosystem and they lack the capacity to understand that they are part of much bigger living organisms.

What if we are of no more importance than them compared to some other things that we lack capacity to grasp.

[msc545]

There are known unknowns, and unknown unknowns. These last ones are the root of the problem.

[lightbulb27]

not sure about disturbed, it certainly has n order to it and appears... an underlying design. As well, the human design seems to be filled with the same...

Start getting into lower level particles and things get wonky... particles exist in two places at one time I hear...

and what created it all. It's not possible to have a big bang from nothing... ludicrous. Do farts come from nothing... no they don't... theycome fream eating a big plate of beans. So there's a big plate of beans somewhere in the universe...

It is disturbing to see women hover around men at bars... why don't they get a hobby or something... play hopscotch...

[BoopBoopBeep]

I'll do you one more... Watch a swarm of gnats. Stay far enough back that you can see them without interfering with the cloud, but close enough that you can track them individually. Periodicity of flight cycles can be observed and identified as replicated as the hive uses pheromone swap to communicate complex messages. They aren't just "randomly swarming"

[Emelina]

The world its a very very mysterious planet, we live in it, breath in it, but how are we doing this and not fall out of this planet? Gravity I am guessing but whom or what made Gravity? Somethings in space or anything surrounding us would remain a mystery. I am not disturbed of the orbital system, it is what is and sometimes there's answers and sometimes there's not. Cheers 🍁

[exitseven]

It is no accident. The universe is like the workings on a clock and was created by some supreme being.

[goaded]

It's (relatively) simple rules leading to complex systems. If the rules were different, there probably wouldn't be anybody to witness them.

[Siri137]

No, I'm not disturbed by it. All it means is that nature isn't chaotic, and that the human mind is capable of seeing patterns within nature. That's it, that's all there is to it.

[DermalPunch]

Yes, because Allaah is One so his creation is. Period.

[CuriousMufuxka]

That's like asking what created the universe scientifically, but in a way that strangely makes less sense..

[LiamJHayden]

No, it's comforting that there is consistency.

[KrakenAttackin]

Molecular geometry and orbital mechanics are fascinating subjects.

[msc545]

indeed they are. It is just that seeming coincidence of structure that bothers me a bit.

[KrakenAttackin]

They point toward more order in the Universe than we may be willing to admit.

[msc545]

Good point - makes me wonder about entropy being a function of time after all...

[SnowedIn]

I am but I just can't get around it. 😉

[Anonymous]

Intelligent design?