11 mile wide scale model of an atom

April 2nd, 2007

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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