Empty Space is NOT Empty
An atom is mostly empty space, but empty space is mostly not empty. The reason it looks empty is because electrons and photons don't interact with the stuff that is there, quark and gluon field...
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One of the most amazing things about atomsis that they're mainly empty space.If an atom were as wide as your arm span,then the electrons would all be whizzing about inside the volume enclosed by your fingertips,meanwhile the nucleus would be sitting in the center,and its diameter would be smaller than the width of a single human hair...So all of the atoms that make up you and meand all the seemingly solid things in the universeare mostly empty space.Now, this is incredible.But what is even more mind-boggling is that empty space is not truly empty...I know because I've seen it.This is a simulation by Prof. Derek Leinweber at the University of Adelaide.It was made using a supercomputer to crunch the calculations of Quantum Chromo-Dynamics.Now that is t...
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One of the most amazing things about atomsis that they're mainly empty space.If an atom were as wide as your arm span,then the electrons would all be whizzing about inside the volume enclosed by your fingertips,meanwhile the nucleus would be sitting in the center,and its diameter would be smaller than the width of a single human hair...So all of the atoms that make up you and meand all the seemingly solid things in the universeare mostly empty space.Now, this is incredible.But what is even more mind-boggling is that empty space is not truly empty...I know because I've seen it.This is a simulation by Prof. Derek Leinweber at the University of Adelaide.It was made using a supercomputer to crunch the calculations of Quantum Chromo-Dynamics.Now that is t...
