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> Especially knowing that if they could zoom in further to the subatomic level, the atoms themselves would also be mostly empty space. I don't think this is re
by 6nf 5y ago
> Especially knowing that if they could zoom in further to the subatomic level, the atoms themselves would also be mostly empty space.
I don't think this is really true, what you're seein in these picures are the probability distribution of the particles. Zooming in will make the high probability areas bigger until you end up with an area where the probability density is approximately at the maximum and evenly smeared out. The probability cloud does not end in a sharp point or a a singularity, there is a smooth maximum instead. I wouldn't feel comfortable calling that area 'mostly empty space' it just feels like the wrong visual
- ineedasername 5y agoIsn't the probability cloud still pretty much empty? It may have a greater probability of being in a particular point in denser probability space, but it still is not actually at all of those points. Though I understand it is also not quite the same as most of the space being truly empty in the traditional sense either.