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Proof that reality is just empty space with commitment issues about electrons.
means The branch of physics that studies the structure of atoms — their nuclei, electrons, and the energy involved in holding them together or breaking them apart.
from From Greek 'atomos' meaning 'indivisible' or 'uncuttable' — coined by ancient philosophers like Democritus who imagined matter cut smaller and smaller until you hit a piece that couldn't be cut further. The irony: we later split the atom anyway, proving the Greeks' indivisible unit was neither final nor indivisible. The word stuck around even after the concept it named got technically disproven.
- mostly empty
- atoms are 99.9999% empty space, yet feel solid
- quantum jumps
- electrons dont move between orbits, they teleport
- nobel bait
- spawned more nobel prizes than any other field
- clocks
- atomic clocks lose one second per 300 million years