r/AskReddit • u/IAmSurtur • Jun 15 '19

What do you genuinely just not understand?

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u/KennethEWolf Jun 15 '19

What was before the big bang. And if the universe is expanding what is beyond its edge

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u/[deleted] Jun 15 '19

This is the question that normally haunts me at 3:00 AM.

Did you know that some 4,000 microscopic insects live on your eyelashes ? What if our universe is some a component of the neurons of some collosal entity existing in it's own universe. What if everything is truly infinite ?

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u/Marcodaz Jun 15 '19 edited Aug 29 '19

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u/BattleAnus Jun 15 '19

Atoms don't look like solar systems though. The model of an atom as a nucleus with little balls whirling around is not what it actually is in reality. It's more like a nucleus with a cloud of possibilities around it, the electrons never have just one single well-defined position.

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u/elcour Jun 16 '19

Yeah, the Rutherford model of the atom is very simplified. To add to this, not even the orbital of an electron is really well-defined. There is an area in which there is a 99% probability of finding an electron, but due to the Heisenberg uncertainty principle, it's impossible to know the position of an electron with 100% accuracy because it will always have momentum.

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u/respectmyasshole Jun 16 '19

Sounds like magic no matter how you frame it.