Atoms are the smallest things that we can imagine, and they are the building blocks of everything we know and love. The range of its mass is 1.67 × 10−27 to 4.52 × 10−25 kg, that’s extremely small. Things we think are solid actually aren’t because atoms are mostly empty space, they are a condensed piece of matter in the middle and electrons float around it, but it is mostly empty space. So solid things aren’t actually solid at the atomic level, and atoms are in constant movement, they are always vibrating and colliding with one another. The never ending movement of atoms is what gives them the ability to make objects seem solid, and lets say that we could stop the movement of atoms completely on an object, then in theory you would be able to go right through the object because the atoms aren’t colliding and moving so you would be able to literally push them apart and go through any object, but to attain that we would need to be able to produce "absolute zero" which is zero Kelvin and -273 degrees Celsius, and if we were able to reach that temperature, atoms would stop to move, but its practically impossible and we’ve only come 99.9% of that. The atoms mass is mostly concentrated at the center which is made up of protons and neutrons, which are positive and negative respectively. The outer part of the atom is composed of electrons which are negative and located in the electron cloud. The nucleus or center of the atom is relatively small compared to the rest of it, if a marble was a nucleus then an entire football field would be the atom. So are the smallest things we know and make up everything we know.Monday, February 23, 2009
The smallest thing ever!!!!
Atoms are the smallest things that we can imagine, and they are the building blocks of everything we know and love. The range of its mass is 1.67 × 10−27 to 4.52 × 10−25 kg, that’s extremely small. Things we think are solid actually aren’t because atoms are mostly empty space, they are a condensed piece of matter in the middle and electrons float around it, but it is mostly empty space. So solid things aren’t actually solid at the atomic level, and atoms are in constant movement, they are always vibrating and colliding with one another. The never ending movement of atoms is what gives them the ability to make objects seem solid, and lets say that we could stop the movement of atoms completely on an object, then in theory you would be able to go right through the object because the atoms aren’t colliding and moving so you would be able to literally push them apart and go through any object, but to attain that we would need to be able to produce "absolute zero" which is zero Kelvin and -273 degrees Celsius, and if we were able to reach that temperature, atoms would stop to move, but its practically impossible and we’ve only come 99.9% of that. The atoms mass is mostly concentrated at the center which is made up of protons and neutrons, which are positive and negative respectively. The outer part of the atom is composed of electrons which are negative and located in the electron cloud. The nucleus or center of the atom is relatively small compared to the rest of it, if a marble was a nucleus then an entire football field would be the atom. So are the smallest things we know and make up everything we know.
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It's pretty amazing how we are actually made up. It goes deeper than anything we know. Atoms are just the smallest substances we know of besides protons, electrons and neutrons. I wonder how it would be like to see everything at the sub atomic level or to have the power to control the atoms and do whatever you please. Just that whole thought is mesmerizing like the power to shift atoms and go through them could like open so many possibilities. Time for distance traveling could almost be eliminated if harnessed correctly. So much more it's ahhhh.
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