There are things that are unimaginably large. For example, the sun with a diameter of 1.3914 million km. Or the distance from the nearest solar system. Conversely, we can imagine bad, how incredibly small are the tiniest particles of this world.
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but once we take the example of the atom, the element from the existence of all of us. We know that as a hydrogen atom has a diameter of about one ten-millionth of a millimeter . But who among them can already imagine what? So we will pick up once these incredible tiny features in our world began. And we do this by making a mental magnification ...
The first enlargement to go in a thousand. This increase attained man the height of a tall mountain peak , a coffee cup is as big as a ship, a pinhead masks a family table, a head of hair is as thick as a rope and bacteria are visible as motes in the sunbeams. But the atom is still nothing to see .
Enlarge we now once again a thousand times, so rises the man on his knees already into space , each of his head hair is thicker than a church tower, the bacteria floating around the size of geese - but the world of atoms is still hidden .
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| atom, where are you? |
thousandfold So, once again. Now the man could planet in his pocket put . The bacteria have become giants, covered by a single which a whole village. Now, finally, the atom has appeared next to these giants, however, a very tiny beads, the size of a tennis ball . Now we can finally see, what actually is inside this Urbaustein of the substances.
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| The Atom is finally visible after bacteria the size of a village have taken. |
What we find in the interior of the atom, is surprising. We find that is - nothing . Only empty space. But can it really be that the atom and thus our world from "nothing", consists of a accumulation of empty spaces? How then should things their weight, their strength and their shape? Here's something not yet!
No, the atom is not completely empty only has our current enlarged to a Milliardenstfache still not enough. To see the contents of the atom, must We thousandfold again, what we have now reached a total magnification of one in a trillion.
is now a head hair is much thicker than the globe, one of the bacteria could completely cover Western Europe, and the tennis ball-sized atom has blown up into a ball, would find in a skyscraper with 20 floors of space. Finally, we also recognize the content: in the middle of the vast area of almost 100 meters a minute granules, floating about the size of a pinhead.
And the is the nucleus ...!
PS: Sometimes it's good durchzukramen old school stuff. This article I have in my old chemistry folder found and modified a little. ;-)
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