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06-04-2005, 02:10 PM
big and small vs many and few

The macroscopic world of stars and galaxies is big, while the microscopic world of molecules, atoms and elementary particles is small.

Although the number of stars and galaxies are in the billions and trillions, the number of atoms in a standard volume of 22.4 liters contains Avogadro's number of approximately 6 \times 10^{23} particles.

Ilya Prigogine's work indicated that these are the two kinds of structures ruling the universe, to which we human beings stand in between observing and analyzing as well as theorizing about one or the other world. See Prigogine's Nobel lecture at http://nobelprize.org/chemistry/laur...ne-lecture.pdf

The total world population stands approximately at 8 billions and counting, yet the fates of many lie in the hands of the few.
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All these numbers indicate that, like I believe, the universe and nature itself is governed ussually by opposites.
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the universe and nature itself is governed ussually by opposites.
You mean male and female? Ying and Yang? Good and Evil? Left and right?
Front and back? Top and bottom? Do you think these opposites are equal in numbers?

The electron and the proton have disparate mass (about 1836 electrons to one proton) but they are equal in electric charge magnitude, while opposites in charge's direction.
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You mean male and female? Ying and Yang? Good and Evil? Left and right?
Front and back? Top and bottom? Do you think these opposites are equal in numbers?

The electron and the proton have disparate mass (about 1836 electrons to one proton) but they are equal in electric charge magnitude, while opposites in charge's direction.
About electrons and protons, the mass is a different concept to charge, thus, both don't need relationship (although could have it).

About the opposites in general, I'm not sure if the number is equal at all. I think I read somewhere that the rate of wemen to men in the world was the number phi (1.6....):1. I also know that the anti-matter of the universe is much less than the matter. Although about dimensions, (front-back, top-bottom...) the numbers ARE iqual because they form part of the same line. What determines which is which is a point that must be in the middle, thus, they are equal.
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thus, both don't need relationship (although could have it).
the ratio of charge to mass is a number critical for the definition of Lorentz force in electromagnetism. See for example

http://scienceworld.wolfram.com/phys...entzForce.html

see also

http://www.physics.isu.edu/~hackmart/electronmass.PDF#search='charge%20to%20mass%20rati o'

I think the electric charge polarities in the universe must be equal otherwise a net of electric charge would cause all photons to have a preferred direction and violating the principle of special relativity and general covariance.

Global naturally occurring antimatter cannot be found even through the persistent search of many scientists. Antiparticles (positrons and antiprotons, etc.) can only be created in high energy experiments yet no anti-hydrogen atoms can be formed from these experiments.
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correction to post#5. Antihydrogen was artificially created in 1995. See site at
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