Atoms

WHY might you say that atoms are mostly empty space besides the fact that they ARE mostly empty space?

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... because atoms ARE mostly empty space.

anyone with a real, scientific answer?

>>1
what does actually emptiness mean? because even if they were full all the way to the electron in HOMO( you should know what this is), the only way we feel them is through the forces they exert. So, we never actually touch anything, no contact occurs. We get close to it and the repulsion force increases. you know the force formula, inversely proportional to distance. That will not exactly explain why but there was a concept called bohr radius. Look it up, i don't remember clearly. It is a limit that how close electrons can be to the nucleus. And btw, the empty space you talk about is not necessarily empty. There might be a field for other bosons to travel on like the electromagnetic field. Because forces always travel on mediums, on vector fields which have to contain directions and volume( generally more than 3 dimensions). Anyway i just speculate...

>>1
Because particles that interact weakly with the forces present in atoms, such as neutrinos, tend to pass right through them. That's a pretty important property.

The gold foil experiment. You should have learned about it in like, 7th grade. Now GTFO.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geiger-Marsden_experiment

If the atomic core were the size of a tennis ball, the closest electron pair would orbit it at a distance of 12 km.

So yeah, lots of 'empty space' in there.

the closest electron pair would orbit

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WHY might you say that atoms are mostly empty space besides the fact that they ARE mostly empty space?

I don't think there is any other reason besides that...

>>9
"It was quite the most incredible event that has ever happened to me in my life. It was almost as incredible as if you fired a 15-inch shell at a piece of tissue paper and it came back and hit you. On consideration, I realized that this scattering backward must be the result of a single collision, and when I made calculations I saw that it was impossible to get anything of that order of magnitude unless you took a system in which the greater part of the mass of the atom was concentrated in a minute nucleus. It was then that I had the idea of an atom with a minute massive center, carrying a charge."
Rutherford on the experiment you mentioned. This doesn't explain why, this just states it is indeed that way even though this is not enough evidence for me. You were a successful student all through school, right?...but i have bad news for you you will never be significant as a scientist. Don't aim to become one.

>>12
Like Rutherford?

>>13
He proposed a model that did not exist before ( although refuted later), you just accept it and defend blindly.

Does empty spaces exist?