Inner Space and the 11-Mile-Wide Web Page

We've all heard about and dreamed of and watched movies about outer space, but here's a demonstration about the space inside us--inside the atoms that make up the molecules that make up our bodies and everything we see. It seems that if the proton of a hydrogen atom (which has only one proton in its nucleus and one electron orbiting around it) were the size of a basketball, it's electron would be the size of a period. Makes sense, right? However, the kicker is that, in its orbit around the proton, at any given time the electron would be 11 miles away.

Check out the link below for a graphic demonstration. The page is 11 miles wide.


Phrenopolis.com: Hydrogen Atom Scale Model


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