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This was a disappointing article. I found quite a few incorrect statements, and the overarching claim that "space inside an atom is full of clouds" isn't going
by aappleby 3y ago
This was a disappointing article. I found quite a few incorrect statements, and the overarching claim that "space inside an atom is full of clouds" isn't going to be particularly convincing considering that clouds are also.... mostly empty space.
- imtringued 3y agoAlso no mention of the Geiger–Marsden experiments/Rutherford gold foil experiments that discovered the atomic nucleus and involve alpha particles passing through a gold foil and only being deflected with a low probability. If you want to "bust" a myth, at least understand where it comes from instead of building up strawmen.
- SamBam 3y agoI can't speak to the quantum party, but that stood out to me as well > but it is sure that Carl Sagan, in his classic TV series Cosmos (1980), was crucial in popularising it I would say it was popularized by teaching the gold foil experiment in middle school physics. (That said, it seems like a minor point of the article.)