knowledge of the atom is school boy knowledge these days. They are believed to be mostly empty space some even believe on principle suggests mater made of nothing at all. To some of us seems rather a crazy and bazaar belief to say the lest. Consider this.
Imagine a line up of a million basket balls each a100cm apart forming a perfect square at the foot of a tall sky scraper viewed from the top floor. The details of the empty spaces between each ball disappear with distance into a smooth square. In fact we can easily see parts of letters painted on each ball forming whole letters then words into clear full sentences.
Imagine the perimeter of a wire fence vied though binoculars several kilometers away the same trick with far away galaxies. We know they are made up of millions individual stars that are light year of empty spaces apart. We understand the true meaning of mostly empty of a galaxy the we view the milky way on a clear night is only a part of a galaxy our sun belongs is over 90% empty space.
Typical desk top wallpaper image in a bitmap (bmp) draw or paint program zoomed to maximum becomes a bit fuzzy even a confused jumble of colored blocks called pixilated. A high definition video at maximum zoom has the same effect. In other words when zoomed large we notice a marked determination in quality preferring to view well below maximum zoom. If we zoom in smaller the picture becomes even better. Slightly smaller to avoid obviously to small for large screen enthusiasts has better quality than at 100% in size.
Measuring the sizes a common School ruler will measure the width of a typical news paper sheet thickness a micrometer. The edge looks sharp by the naked eye. A million sheets will make a pile a meter high. Examined by a toy magnifying glass we can just barely see the beginnings of a fluffy edge. A human hair is smaller still.
Plucking one even holding it up against light it's very difficult to see in front of our faces. A single strand even in light is practically invisible. Try recognizing the hair from a distance of a meter. If it's invisible it's not there is not necessarily true. The hair is only to tiny to see with the naked eye at a distance.
Examined under a toy microscope disappears into a bundle of mountainous fluff but still recognizable as a human hear or the edge of a news paper sheet. Under the zoom of a microscope worth a lot of money becomes an unrecognizable wide mountain range world smooth surfaces to the naked eye and low zoom look magnified thousands of times.
A million times closer we can't see the human hair is made up of molecules. The zoom in not enough to see the molecules let a lone the atoms. All we see is a close up confused mountain range of fluff at best.
These scopes can at lest zoom in enough to show tiny animals jiggling about in a fluid that cause the common cold but still not enough for the molecule details. This is the realm nanotecnology the diameter of our body cells.
Our body cells are a 1,000 times as small as micrometer across, a thousand million times a meter and they are living things. In number terms a nanometer is 9 decimal zeros and 1 ( 0000000001 ) of a meter or 000000 of centimeter 3 zeros of a micrometer. ( 000.1um ) still not zoomed in enough to examine the molecule make up.
To see the molecule make up in detail we need to zoom in at lest another 1,000 times closer, a Picometer, a billionth of a meter or a millionth of a micrometer ( in other words 0000000000001m, 0000000001cm 0000001mm and 0001um ). What we would observe of a drop water would be a whole city size of trillions of fluffy blurs. To see the detail we would need to zoom in another 1,000 times.
At this zoom the drop appears not exist as we know it any more. It resembles fluffy spheres of dancing sparkling energy circling other spheres of dancing sparkling energy. We zoom in for a closer closer to observe more detail.
Suddenly everything disappears into nothing. To our surprise the energetic spheres have disappeared. To double check things we zoom back and observe the furry sparkling spheres again.
We zoom in for another look and sure enough they have indeed disappeared at this point. We'd expected to see what was causing the sparkling instead find a black void. We though we would at lest been able to observe the details of a hydrogen atom. We'd expected to have seen an orbiting sphere racing round another sphere but they are nowhere to be seen. They only thing we can think of are invisible not unlike magnetic fields gravity and black holes are as invisible.
Hydrogen atoms are the simplest of all atoms. If we viewed any other atom they would have been a cloud like an atmosphere. If we zoomed in for a closer look the atmosphere completely disappears. The atmospheres are made up of invisible energy called called electrons orbiting huge center. To see the details we need zoom back up, only to observe the orbiting electron cloud hiding the center energies.
If we zoom in by half we'd observe the sparkling of fogy spheres disappearing and reappearing as if by magic. Any closer details completely disappear. We had found the threshold of zoom.
If we could zoom even further without disappearing to nothing the space between the disappearing and reappearing dancing rings begin to widen dramatically looking liking as wide as the space between the planets of our solar system. Any closer the entire disappearing and reappearing dance of the entire orbits a galaxy across ringing huge energy spheres equally disappearing and reappearing dancing round each other called protons and neutrons. It is as if each electron tunnels though the empty void into another orbit
A close cousin to electrons although evidence suggests not a apart of the orbital structure called neutrinos that appear to be faster than light. Never the less every electron look like identical clones of each other we will be unable to tell apart similar to 1,000s of the same brand same size and paten and color basket balls from each each other.
When an electron disappears from an orbit we can't tell where it has reappeared to because every electron is identical doing the same thing. A single electron as any other can be any one anywhere. The point is as each electron disappears it reappears in another orbit quantum physicists termed quantum jumping.
The end result of looking identical electrums appear to be in the same places at the same time each as if in different place at the same time. Since every electron in the universe is identical to every other, an electron in this part of the universe will appear as if the same electron clear across the other side of the universe. Indeed every corner of the universe.
This identical characteristic can be the root of what happens to electrons one side of the universe almost identical patens every part of the universe at the same time. It's possible worlds with parallel physics to our world all over the universe.
The whole universe and us is made up of this quantum jumping dance. An electron dance this part of the world would have identical dancing effect the other side of the world indeed the whole universe in a state of this quantum dancing at the same time.
After noting the characteristics of the disappearing and reappearing electrons rings turning our attention in zooming in closer to the nucleus we observe the protons and neutrons fused in each others orbits. Electrons look like tiny moons compared to our sun in compassion.
When we zoom in for a closer look we find spheres of energy locked together in a equally disappearing and reappearing dance.
It should be mentioned kilometer long circular tunnels have been constructed ( particle accelerators ) where atomic particles have collided closet to light speed have uncovered partials, particle physicists have given names, up and down Quarks, neurons, to Gluons only to name a few Higs boson recently identified as the glue that holds the entire nucleus together. It takes nearlight speed collisions to knock the nucleus apart releasing energy that has been recorded equal to the surface of the sun.
The speed of light is the distance light travels just under 300,00km by the time we say one thousand and one. Sunlight we see now is what the sun was just under 8 minutes ago every second.
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