Temporary_Undoing wrote:loftar wrote: The analogy is flawed and belies your ignorance of the perspective you try to give priority. An electron has no meaningful concept of "size" in the standard model.
It does have a size, no? A size comparable to that of a human in the vast nothingness of the universe.
It does not. It excludes other particles not by having spatial extent, but by the Pauli exclusion principle, being a fermion. The only way the extent of an electron can be meaningfully spoken of is by looking it its wave-function (which is what dictates the Pauli exclusion principle), which however can have many different kinds of geometric configurations depending on the situation of the electron in question, with vastly differing (probabilistic) sizes. A valence electron of an atom, for instance, basically has the size of the atom itself (which, for highly excited atoms as can happen eg. in some nebulae, can reach up to a millimeter or more).
Temporary_Undoing wrote:"Accept life for what it is." An optimistic yet ignorant statement.
Clearly, on the contrary, if you do not accept life for what it is, you won't be finding what you're looking for in it.
Temporary_Undoing wrote:but I do not agree with it.
What an elegant rebuttal!
