Thinking about how cool it is that the electrons inside an atom of gold are moving at 58% of the speed of light.
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@WKCosmo Gold atoms are also bigger than I thought!
@WKCosmo What keeps them going? Where does that huge amount of energy come from?
@WKCosmo I thought it was about 1/137 the speed of light?
@WKCosmo Interesting. The sound speed in the ionized plasma in the early universe prior to the cosmic microwave background release was 57% of light speed. astro.ucla.edu/~wright/BAO-co…
@WKCosmo Kind of a crazy unnecessary and probably inaccurate conceptual abstraction, don't you think?
@WKCosmo Is that faster than other atoms? Is it accurate then that your speed through space and your speed through time always add up to the same number?