{"id":215364,"date":"2025-06-04T13:08:37","date_gmt":"2025-06-04T18:08:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/06\/the-empty-atom-myth-why-nothing-isnt-empty-at-all"},"modified":"2025-06-04T13:08:37","modified_gmt":"2025-06-04T18:08:37","slug":"the-empty-atom-myth-why-nothing-isnt-empty-at-all","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/06\/the-empty-atom-myth-why-nothing-isnt-empty-at-all","title":{"rendered":"The Empty Atom Myth: Why \u201cNothing\u201d Isn\u2019t Empty at All"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/21XuHLJkEeg?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Go to <a href=\"https:\/\/groundnews.com\/physics\">https:\/\/groundnews.com\/physics<\/a> to stay fully informed about physics, other sciences, and more. Subscribe through my link to get 40% off the unlimited vantage plan, the same one I use, which breaks down to just $5\/month with my discount.<\/p>\n<p>You can help support this channel via the Physics Explained Patreon account: \/ physicsexplained.<\/p>\n<p>We\u2019ve all heard the claim: atoms are mostly empty space. That if you zoomed in far enough, you\u2019d find 99.9999999999999% of an atom is just\u2026 nothing. But this idea, while popular, is deeply misleading.<\/p>\n<p>In this video, we dive into the quantum reality behind that empty space \u2014 and reveal what truly fills the \u201cvoid\u201d inside atoms. From the discovery of the nucleus to the rise of quantum field theory, we\u2019ll explore how jittering fields, zero-point energy, and vacuum fluctuations reshape our understanding of what \u201cnothing\u201d really is.<\/p>\n<p>Along the way, you\u2019ll learn:<\/p>\n<p>Why Rutherford\u2019s model gave birth to the \u201cempty atom\u201d idea.<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/06\/the-empty-atom-myth-why-nothing-isnt-empty-at-all\">Continue reading \u201cThe Empty Atom Myth: Why \u201cNothing\u201d Isn\u2019t Empty at All\u201d | &gt;<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Go to https:\/\/groundnews.com\/physics to stay fully informed about physics, other sciences, and more. Subscribe through my link to get 40% off the unlimited vantage plan, the same one I use, which breaks down to just $5\/month with my discount. You can help support this channel via the Physics Explained Patreon account: \/ physicsexplained. We\u2019ve all [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":661,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48,1617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-215364","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-particle-physics","category-quantum-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215364","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/661"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=215364"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215364\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=215364"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=215364"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=215364"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}