If atoms are 99,9% emptiness, how can they keep things together ? Like, if my skin is 99,9% emptiness, why is it able to keep blood and organs in it ?
In: Chemistry
The keeping blood in is the easy part. think of atoms as expanded polystyrene foam but the balls are bubbles for scale. (Obviously bubbles sounds like a bad analogy because of surface tension and the like appearing weak.) An atom would be an individual bubble. The ~ 99.9% emptiness is more because of the relation between the Protons, Neutrons and Electrons, otherwise you would have Neutron star like matter with Protons, Neutrons and Electrons all squashed together with relative ~ 99.9% fullness.
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