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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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. 😉