If this is so then why arnt all objects 90 percent space or are they?
2006-12-25 18:51:48 · 11 answers · asked by dominick d 1 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Astronomy & Space
also if this is true can some one give me the name of this theory
2006-12-25 19:20:19 · update #1
Could be 100%. It all depends on how you view it.
2006-12-25 18:54:49 · answer #1 · answered by Carson 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes. Atoms consist of a tiny nucleus with a bunch of even tinier electrons orbiting it at distances that would put planetary orbits to shame. The nucleus is pretty dense, but there's a whole bunch of space between the electrons. All matter is mostly made up of the space between electrons. We see it as solid because, although the spaces are huge compared to electrons, they're still much too small to see.
We feel matter as solid, rather than passing through it, because the electrons orbiting the atoms that make up matter repel each other so strongly that they can't get by each other. So if you pucnh a wall or something, what's really happening at the atomic level isn't the actual electrons colliding, but just getting close enough to each other to repel.
2006-12-25 19:22:35 · answer #2 · answered by Amy F 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It's more like 99.999% as others have suggested.
If an atom is 100 metres wide that outer wall being the electron shell then the actual nucleus is in a tiny dot in the middle 1 single milimetre in diameter.
That's how much empty space there is in everything. They 'theory' is called quantum mechanics and if it wasn't an incredibly accurate description of reality we wouldn't have microwaves, computers, lasers or television.
i recommend 'in search of schödinger's cat' by John Gribbin.
2006-12-26 00:06:08 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Yes it is almost 99% open space or empty. But remember, only one atom is 99% empty, but a group of atoms is not. Because, the empty space of one atom is filled by another atom. If the nucleus of an atom be a cricket ball, the whole atom would be a cricket feild. This the Bohr's model of atom.
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2006-12-25 20:25:11 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
It's 90% at least. If that blows your mind, just browse through Hawking's Brief History of Time. That stuff goes from being understandable to beyond the capabilities of one's mind, which is something everyone should experience, quite often. It's not a matter of too much info, but info of a type that we're really not used to cognizing.
2006-12-25 18:56:05 · answer #5 · answered by oasisfan_fatstrat 1 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I think that the correct percentage of open space within the atom is more like 99.99 percent.
2006-12-25 23:42:43 · answer #6 · answered by zahbudar 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I think it's much more than that, if an atom has the size of the sixteenth chapel, the nucleus would be the size of a grain of salt, and the electrons can not be seen with naked eyes.
2006-12-25 18:58:14 · answer #7 · answered by ivandescobar 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes
2006-12-25 18:52:40 · answer #8 · answered by freshlybakedj 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The only thing with less space[per unit] would be a neutron star!
2006-12-25 22:21:21 · answer #9 · answered by Billy Butthead 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes, our entire visible universe is almost 100% nothing.
2006-12-26 08:04:30 · answer #10 · answered by mitchellvii 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋