Do the neutrons, protons, and electrons in atoms have color or texture? The atoms shown in most textbooks are just for basic visual representation but they have to actually look like something right?
In: Physics
> they have to actually look like something right?
When I asked the same question to my physics tutor he said that when things get really small, the rules our meat sensors (eyes, touch receptors, taste, smell, whatever) impose on us no longer apply. It’s why things stop making sense the smaller and smaller we go.
So unfortunately this isn’t the answer anyone likes, but they really don’t need to make sense to us, it’s pretty clear that nature on a macro scale and nature on a micro scale are two different things and unfortunately we are only capable of truly comprehending the macro scale. We resort to mathematics in order to gain understanding of the micro scale but the most we will ever be able to comprehend with our five senses is only as large as technology is able to magnify for us to physically see.
Even then “magnification” technology such as tunnelling electron microscopes don’t truly magnify the image (don’t let language such as “lenses” confuse you, there are no lenses in an electron microscope but that part of the machine operates the same way as a lens), they just use electromagnetic fields in order to create a visualisation based on the voltage or distance of a pointy stick away from the surface you are magnifying
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