The solar system mimics a hydrogen atom
General Physics
2014-05-08 v1
Abstract
The solar system and the hydrogen atom are two well known systems on different scales and look unrelated: The former is a classical system on the scale of about billions of kilometers and the latter a quantum system of about tens of picometers. Here we show a connection between them. Specifically, we find that the orbital radii of the planets mimic the mean radii of the energy levels of a quantum system under the Coulomb-like potential. This connection might be explained by very light dark matter which manifests quantum behavior in the solar system, thereby hinting at a dark matter mass around electron-volts.
Cite
@article{arxiv.1405.1654,
title = {The solar system mimics a hydrogen atom},
author = {Je-An Gu},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1405.1654},
year = {2014}
}
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7 pages, 4 figures, 1 table