Reply to post: Empty space

Look, we know it feels like everything's going off the rails right now, but think positive: The proton has a new radius

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Empty space

So if a proton is 0.8e-16m and a hydrogen atom is 5e-11m that means that the proton only takes up about 4e-13 % of the volume of the atom. That's a lot of empty space.

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