{"id":72482,"date":"2017-09-11T15:42:27","date_gmt":"2017-09-11T22:42:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/09\/if-atoms-are-mostly-empty-space-why-do-objects-look-and-feel-solid"},"modified":"2017-09-14T17:00:51","modified_gmt":"2017-09-15T00:00:51","slug":"if-atoms-are-mostly-empty-space-why-do-objects-look-and-feel-solid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/09\/if-atoms-are-mostly-empty-space-why-do-objects-look-and-feel-solid","title":{"rendered":"If Atoms Are Mostly Empty Space, Why Do Objects Look And Feel Solid?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/if-atoms-are-mostly-empty-space-why-do-objects-look-and-feel-solid.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Chemist John Dalton proposed the theory that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.iun.edu\/~cpanhd\/C101webnotes\/composition\/dalton.html\">all matter and objects are made up of particles called atoms<\/a>, and this is still accepted by the scientific community, almost two centuries later. Each of these <a href=\"http:\/\/www.livescience.com\/37206-atom-definition.html\">atoms<\/a> is each made up of an incredibly small nucleus and even smaller electrons, which move around at quite a distance from the centre. If you imagine a table that is a billion times larger, its atoms would be the size of melons. But even so, the nucleus at the centre would still be far too small to see and so would the electrons as they dance around it. So why don\u2019t our fingers just pass through atoms, and why doesn\u2019t light get through the gaps?<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sci-techuniverse.com\/2017\/03\/if-atoms-are-mostly-empty-space-why-do.html?m=1\">http:\/\/www.sci-techuniverse.com\/2017\/03\/if-atoms-are-mostly-...o.html?m=1<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chemist John Dalton proposed the theory that all matter and objects are made up of particles called atoms, and this is still accepted by the scientific community, almost two centuries later. Each of these atoms is each made up of an incredibly small nucleus and even smaller electrons, which move around at quite a distance [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-72482","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-particle-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72482","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\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=72482"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72482\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":72593,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72482\/revisions\/72593"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72482"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72482"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72482"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}