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To: Dennis O'Bell who wrote (111742)	1/27/2002 5:36:57 AM
From: limtex	Respond to of 152472

DOB- But why don't the bits and pieces that make up atoms just get 'tired' or those that are moving slow down. Whatever the origin of atoms ie Big Bang or something else, atoms are very old so don't the bits and pieces ever slow down. i forget my maths of centrifuge but doesn't an orbiting body eventually fall into the body that it rotates around. Best, L

To: Dennis O'Bell who wrote (111742)	1/27/2002 10:57:34 AM
From: The Reaper	Respond to of 152472

Dennis, can you tell me who's going to win the St. Louis game and by how much? (g) kirby

To: Dennis O'Bell who wrote (111742)	1/27/2002 8:15:13 PM
From: limtex	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 152472

DoB - I am amazed that atoms appear to go on for ever and I just don't understand how something with 'moving parts' can do that. It seems illogical to me. OK I don't understand very much about sub-atomic physics but 'common sense' makes me query how a 'machine' can be put together at say the big bang and then go on for ever without anything happening to it. It/they whirrr on eon after eon with no perceptible change. Just doesn't seem logical. It must be the perfect machine and it toook some enrgy to make it and it never uses any of that energy to maintain itself? Sorry if this is a niaive question. Thanks, L

To: Dennis O'Bell who wrote (111742)	1/28/2002 1:00:50 PM
From: limtex	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 152472

DoB - Atoms are composed of waves and particles that are themselves made up of not very much as opposed to solid bits of something. That is as I understand it. All discussion about the compostion of atoms seems to end up in the most complicated language and ideas that it is posible to imagine. Well to me that is. most things are ultimately quite simple to understand and do not involve that high an intellectual level to either discuss them or understand them. Maybe to work them out in the first place maybe but not once they have been understood. So there ought to be a rational explanation as to why something composed of waves and energy can last for ever, be hard and solid and be heavy. Metals for instance. How can such substance be hard and last for ever given what their atoms are composed. I guess I ask these questions in a niaive way but there ought to be a simple answer. Best, L