[ExI] physics

[BillK]

On 25 April 2016 at 18:20, spike wrote:
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> So where can we find empty space?  In the region surrounding the nucleus of
> atom.  Ja?  Nothing there.  If you assume a hydrogen atom, there aren’t even
> any of the strong nuclear force mediator particles: don’t need them there,
> you aren’t cramming two protons together.  But in that empty space there is
> a there there, because that space is inboard of that electron waving around
> out there.  That electron breaks the symmetry of the empty space,
>


Just to add to the confusion.......
There isn't really empty space around the atom nucleus. The
electron(s) are not like planets orbiting the sun; that's just a
convenient metaphor. It is more accurate to think of an electron as a
quantum field or a probability cloud around the nucleus. The 'empty'
space is full of energies and forces.

BillK