My son wants to know how we can perceive light and it not take up any space at the same time.
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I am only 14 so I don’t know really well, but when I asked my chemistry teacher, he told me that atoms are basically ultra condensed energy (hence einsteins equation e=mc2 which allows you to convert mass and energy). So there are plenty of forms of energy, which can all be converted between each other. So I would guess that also means that atoms don’t really have mass either, but since they are a condensed energy ball, it behaves like it has mass, but technically it doesn’t. So energy doesn’t take up any space at all, it is just able to interact.
Also, sorry if I am completely wrong. I am just trying my best and this is extremely complicated quantum mechanics/physics
FYI: I have no idea whether this is correct at all, I am just using common sense, and my chemistry teacher told me that the explaination he gave is an extremely^∞ dumbed down answer and that even he isn’t entirely sure as this is extremely (you can’t really quantitatively describe) how complicated this stuff is.
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