(Archimedes Plutonium) wrote in
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John Schutkeker wrote in message
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I couldn't disagree more. The color of space may be silvery white,
and it's spectral signature may strongly resemble the spectrum of
plutonium. However it is only marginally resembles the element
putonium, if at all.

Sounds as if you are disagree with semantics.
Actually, my disagreement was with the perceived sensationalism of the
metaphor. Among anti-nuclear luddites, Plutonium is commonly known to be
highly toxic, both chemically and radioactively, so it sounded like an
inflammatory statement to me.

I had actually heard that it had a slight greenish tinge, kind of like a
soft pastel.

So if the Universe is one single big atom of plutonium where Earth and
the night sky is the 5f6 where dots of the electron-dot-cloud are
galaxies, then there would be some match of color of the cosmos and
the plutonium sample held in one's hands.

I'd be very careful about this Universe = Single Atom idea that's so
common. As it happens, that's just a metaphor that dates from the early
days of big-bang cosmology and beat generation drug culture. If you take a
survey of the PhD's in this group, you will most certainly hear the
resounding statement that the universe is most definitely *not* a single
atom. That's just a convenient point of reference for people without any
formal study in physics.

You might want to wander into a lecturer's office in your local
university's physics department, and discuss the matter with him or her.
The universe is a devil of a lot more complex than a single atom, and in
fact contains about 10^80 single atoms, IIRC.