All we are is dust in the wind ...

Well, not quite. Turns out we are mostly space and energy ... very little actual mass. So little mass, in fact, that if you remove all the space, our entire body would fit into a space the size of a speck of dust -- everyone on Earth would fit into a space the size of a sugar cube (about one centimetre cubed). https://youtube.com/shorts/AfjWYDjQeuU?si=oyEHyQRH0SG4ln-L

Pumped said: Well, not quite. Turns out we are mostly space and energy ... very little actual mass. So little mass, in fact, that if you remove all the space, our entire body would fit into a space the size of a speck of dust -- everyone on Earth would fit into a space the size of a sugar cube (about one centimetre cubed). https://youtube.com/shorts/AfjWYDjQeuU?si=oyEHyQRH0SG4ln-L Click to expand... It is actually more complicated than that, but OK.

Might be confusing “mass” with “matter”.

ChromeGasCap said: It is actually more complicated than that, but OK. Click to expand... Hence the video ...

Pumped said: Hence the video ... Click to expand... The video is misleading in many ways. Is there truly empty space within an atom? Empty space would imply that the space is available for something else to occupy. Being as nothing else can occupy the space, then it really is not empty. It is only empty in simplicity. In order for an atom to relinquish this said space, all energy would need to be removed from the atom. Absolute 0K is theoretically impossible, so you would be entertaining what ifs, and reality does not exist in what ifs.

Not a lot of empty space in neutron stars eh?

ChromeGasCap said: The video is misleading in many ways. Is there truly empty space within an atom? Empty space would imply that the space is available for something else to occupy. Being as nothing else can occupy the space, then it really is not empty. It is only empty in simplicity. In order for an atom to relinquish this said space, all energy would need to be removed from the atom. Absolute 0K is theoretically impossible, so you would be entertaining what ifs, and reality does not exist in what ifs. Click to expand... 'Everything we call real is made up of things that cannot be regarded as real.' Niels Bohr So if an atom can be 'split' then something can occupy that space to split it, otherwise how would an atom be split? Isn't it a factor of apply more energy to the atom than the energy that holds the atom together? That energy comes from neutrons, so if they can enter the atom's 'space' then there must be room for the neutrons in the atom?

Its actually: "All we are is quantum dust in the quantum wind"

I have been told that there is a lot of empty space inside my head. [o_O]

After we pass away and our name is spoken for the last time, we become less than a speck of dust, we become nothing, as if we never existed.

Bang4thebuck said: After we pass away and our name is spoken for the last time, we become less than a speck of dust, we become nothing, as if we never existed. Click to expand... This gets me every time:

Bang4thebuck said: After we pass away and our name is spoken for the last time, we become less than a speck of dust, we become nothing, as if we never existed. Click to expand... Well you live on in memories and monuments you built for yourself.... Ancient pharaohs, famous people, people with statues, your name on a street or building... etc.