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Old 11-20-2011, 12:30 AM   #83 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by Acting Like Godot View Post
Here's a quick grab I made, off the Internet, to give you some idea of what I mean, when I say that matter is "mostly" empty space. Below the writer uses the hydrogen atom to illustrate. Hydrogen is used as a proxy for "all matter", because it is the most abundant element in the universe.



So that's your back-of-the-envelope figure. Matter is generally 99.999999999314% empty space.
Just out of curiosity, what would you say the other .000000000686% consists of?
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