“It boggles your mind to realize how empty an atom it is. If an atom were the size of a 14-story building, the nucleus would be the size of a grain of salt. It's like the sun at the heart of the far-flung solar system. Looking inside an atom would be like looking into the night sky, with its remote planets. That's how far apart the subatomic particles are, relative to each other. So, if you could approach any "solid" material at the atomic level, you'd find only emptiness, like the vast gulfs of the solar system.” James A. Haught

a) If the sun were the nucleus of the atom in a gigantic alt

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“It boggles your mind to realize how empty an atom it is. If an atom were the size of a 14-story building, the nucleus would be the size of a grain of salt. It's like the sun at the heart of the far-flung solar system. Looking inside an atom would be like looking into the night sky, with its remote planets. That's how far apart the subatomic particles are, relative to each other. So, if you could approach any "solid" material at the atomic level, you'd find only emptiness, like the vast gulfs of the solar system.” James A. Haught 

a) If the sun were the nucleus of the atom in a gigantic alt

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