The Tiny World 🔬

Zoom in far enough and everything gets strange and wonderful. What you, a diamond, and a glass of water are really made of, and why it’s almost all empty space.

⚛️ Mostly Empty Everything solid is almost entirely nothing 💧 Atoms Holding Hands Why water is bent, and why ice floats 💎 One Pattern, Billions of Times A diamond and a pencil are the same atom

Going deeper ↓

🕳️ How Far Down Does It Go? Fall from you to quarks and fields, powers of ten 🌫️ A Cloud of Maybe An electron has no place until you look 🌊 Everything Is Fields Particles are just ripples in fields 🧩 Never a Lone Quark Inside the proton, and why you can never hold one quark