In chemistry and physics class, they visualise them as plastic marbles with sticks to connect them to eachother, but what is the true shape of an atom? It also contains quarks and has spinning electrons and neutrons around it. Is it a cloud? How does atomic matter actually look?
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At some scale terms like “looks like” don’t actually make any sense any more. Like, you could not look at an atom and see it in any reasonable meaning of the word. All you get there are probabilistic clouds of “things” that can’t even decide if they are particles or waves.
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