Did You Know....

That every atom is 99.9999999% empty space. This means that if you were to remove all the empty space from all the atoms that make up the human race the mass that that is left over would fit into a volume the size of a sugar cube. That sugar cube would weigh as much as the combined weight of every human on earth.

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rinkydinkydoink · M

Our grade 10 Physics teacher told us Earth would be the size of a softball considering the "empty space" idea. I love mind-stretchers like this.

exexec · 70-79, C

I try to use that theory when hitting a golf ball through the branches of the tree. It always seems to miss the empty space and hit something solid.

Mamapolo2016 · F

I still never got my head around that. A coffee table is mostly empty space, but you can still bark your shins on one.

It’s very weird.

SomeMichGuy · M

@Mamapolo2016 Mostly empty space by volume, but the table's parts are held together by chemical bonds...so bonds created by sharing electrons (seemingly point particles!) create the sense of surface / solidity / strength which we experience.

Metals (including mixtures) crystallize into regular arrays which are regular and strong.

Woods are complex, fibrous, but still bio-chemicals.

And Rosemary Woods' foot-operated recording machine was infamous. 😉

meJess · F

Who are you who is so knowledgeable in the ways of atoms?

MoveAlong · 70-79, M

@meJess Just an interested fan all science. I do have a minor in physics. However I got it when the earth was still flat.

basilfawlty89 · 36-40, M

@MoveAlong that and you have to know these sorts of things as King, you know?

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