Did You Know?......We Are Mostly Empty Space.....

[ToraToraTora]

If we take a hydrogen atom and make the nucleus the size of a golf ball then the most probable position of the electron orbit is 1300m away. All other atoms are similarly empty, even the heaviest ones, so 99.999...etc% of matter is in fact almost entirely empty space.

[royfromaus]

I really don't know how I managed to miss your daily 'did you know' threads.

[andy-hughes]

I think some are more 'empty' than others ...

[Khandro]

The combined 'solid matter' within all the people of the World would fit into a matchbox.

[douglas9401]

Nature abhors the vacuous

[ToraToraTora]

roy if your tiny mind can't cope with knowledge feel free to ignore them ok. I did one on animals for you yesterday as requested, what's your problem?

[youngmafbog]

But what is space and what is nothing?

[douglas9401]

Should make the bench pressing a bit easier, hydrogen and space don't weigh much.

[naomi24]

YMB, //But what is space and what is nothing? //

This might interest you.

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18759201-nothing

TTT, ignore the jokers. I like your 'Did you know?' threads. They liven the place up.

[ToraToraTora]

well YMB has hinted at something, I think, related to the quantum world, essentially by "nothing" in this context I mean the absence of matter at we know it, ie consisting of the 17 elementary particles in the standard model. Space is the gap between the nucleus, single proton in the case of the hydrogen atom, and the most probable orbit of the electron. Now there are all sorts of theories that predict that space is in fact quantum foam and interacting membranes etc, the sort of thing that Jim would be better qualified to talk about. I think that is what YMB is hinting at, I may be wrong.

[ToraToraTora]

doug, that's what always amazes me, pumping iron we are lifting 99.99% nothing and it's still kin heavy!

[Kardashev]

I did know that but It's always seemed mad to me!

[Togo]

If we can find out what caused the Higgs field to begin acting we are on our way ... to anywhere in the Universes. Even trying to think about the concept stalls my mind. No wonder the scientists were excited when they proved the Higgs Boson existed. I think that Jim is doing research out there in Eastern Europe in this ball park.

[McMouse]

I always thought the concept of “empty space” was an euphemism for ABers.