We are not mostly empty space
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We are not mostly empty space
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#2> Inside your body, you aren’t mostly empty space. You’re mostly a series of electron clouds, all bound together by the quantum rules that govern the entire Universe.
So we are mostly electron clouds... and clouds by definition are mostly empty space.
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#3> Atoms exist on extremely tiny scales, just 1 ångström across...
I may be misinterpreting, but it sounds like he's saying all atoms are 1 ångström in diameter.
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#4> Inside your body, you aren’t mostly empty space. You’re mostly a series of electron clouds, all bound together by the quantum rules that govern the entire Universe. So we are mostly electron clouds... and clouds by definition are mostly empty space.
Rather anti-climactic
> look, you're not just empty space > just kidding! yeah you are
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#5> Inside your body, you aren’t mostly empty space. You’re mostly a series of electron clouds, all bound together by the quantum rules that govern the entire Universe. So we are mostly electron clouds... and clouds by definition are mostly empty space.
Call me old fashion but I don't consider anything inside the perimeter of an atom as empty space.
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#6> Atoms exist on extremely tiny scales, just 1 ångström across... I may be misinterpreting, but it sounds like he's saying all atoms are 1 ångström in diameter.
That sounds within one or two orders of magnitude?
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#7> Inside your body, you aren’t mostly empty space. You’re mostly a series of electron clouds, all bound together by the quantum rules that govern the entire Universe. So we are mostly electron clouds... and clouds by definition are mostly empty space.
From what I understand, the idea of "empty" no longer makes sense at that level. All you have are fields. There, everything is made out of fields and fields are everywhere. There is therefore no "empty" really anywhere, including inside yourself.
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#8> Inside your body, you aren’t mostly empty space. You’re mostly a series of electron clouds, all bound together by the quantum rules that govern the entire Universe. So we are mostly electron clouds... and clouds by definition are mostly empty space.
I suggest you revise your definition of cloud.
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#9This has the sound of grooviness to it.
One on hand, electrons as point particles sure sounds empty enough. On the other hand, the fields fill everything.
But on the gripping hand, you could set the volume of the electron to something ludicrously large, like the volume of a proton, then use the charge distribution of whatever "orbital" to trade that charge for an equivalent amount of proton-volume, as sort of a percentage filled of unit volume ... integrate, and you could get a sense of the density.
That, I think, is about as fair as you could ask for when dealing with point particles that are still smeared around.
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#10> Inside your body, you aren’t mostly empty space. You’re mostly a series of electron clouds, all bound together by the quantum rules that govern the entire Universe. So we are mostly electron clouds... and clouds by definition are mostly empty space.
I suggest you revise your definition of cloud.
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