The Tiny World 🔬

Zoom in to find out what you, a diamond and a glass of water are made of, and why nearly all of it is empty space.

⚛️ Mostly Empty Why solid things are almost all empty space 💧 Atoms Holding Hands Why water is bent, and why ice floats 💎 One Pattern, Billions of Times Diamond and the graphite in a pencil are both made of carbon atoms

Going deeper ↓

🕳️ How Far Down Does It Go? Zoom down from your own size to quarks and fields, by powers of ten 🌫️ A Cloud of Maybe Why an electron has no exact position until it’s measured 🌊 Everything Is Fields How every particle is a ripple in a field 🧩 Never a Lone Quark What’s inside a proton, and why you can never hold one quark on its own