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“Study quantum physics beyond a cursory level, and you’ll reach the inescapable conclusion that the reason physical particles behave in such a strange way is because they’re not physical at all. We know that everything in the universe is made up of atoms, which are usually depicted as having a big solid nucleus with electrons spinning around it in neat orbits.
But when quantum physicists took a closer look, they discovered that there’s actually nothing really there. In fact, they discovered that 99.9999999999996 percent of the atom is literally empty space. The nucleus seems to be solid but is so infinitely small as to effectively not be there. The rest is essentially a physical void.
It’s like looking at an invisible tornado-like vortex of energy with infinitely tiny particles seemingly popping into existence one moment and then out the next, with the whole thing being as insubstantial as a puff of smoke. It can’t actually be touched because, as it turns out, there’s literally nothing there to touch.
In fact, it has been calculated that if you took the entire population of the Earth, all seven billion of us, and removed all the empty space from all of our combined atoms, the entire human race would fit into a single sugar cube.
Now if that doesn’t boggle your mind, then I don’t know what will — so much for a solid world.”
Reality Unveiled by Ziad Masri
