11 mile wide scale model of an atom

The curious Phrenopolis has created a scale model of a hydrogen atom, eleven miles wide!

And you thought there was a lot of empty space in the solar system. Well, there’s even more nothing inside an atom. A hydrogen atom is only about a ten millionth of a millimeter in diameter, but the proton in the middle is a hundred thousand times smaller, and the electron whizzing around the outside is a thousand times smaller than THAT. The rest of the atom is empty. I tried to picture it, and I couldn’t. So I put together this page - and I still can’t picture it.

Spotted by Tom P over at the Bad Science forums

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Laser coffee!

We all know that far from being dour men of learning, most scientists are overgrown schoolboys who like nothing better than to abuse their million dollar lab equipment for their own amusement. What other explanation could there be for using a 2 kilowatt laser to make the morning coffee round?

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