CoxRox: You should change your Religious Views entry to 'The answer lies in physics', because I think this is the way you are going 
As far as the solar system view of the atom is concerned, this is just a simply way to understand it from our point of view.
In reality, the atom doesn't actually 'look' like anything. The trouble arises when you try to look at an atom. In order to see it you have to shine light at it. The wavelength of light is much larger than an atom and so the waves simply go around the atom.
When you try to reduce the wavelength so that the photons will actually bounce off the atom you get into the problem of actually moving the electrons around with your beam of light (or photons), hence the famous Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle.
As far as the solar system view of the atom is concerned, this is just a simply way to understand it from our point of view.
In reality, the atom doesn't actually 'look' like anything. The trouble arises when you try to look at an atom. In order to see it you have to shine light at it. The wavelength of light is much larger than an atom and so the waves simply go around the atom.
When you try to reduce the wavelength so that the photons will actually bounce off the atom you get into the problem of actually moving the electrons around with your beam of light (or photons), hence the famous Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle.
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