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@Adorable_Sergal@hachyderm.io I think it's kind of beautiful, actually. A demonstration of scale. And you rarely deal with only one atom. The electron cloud is really a set of probabilities for where an electron might be and a molecule is held together by that. We experience the universe at a scale where we're blind to it all being held together by countless instances of opposing forces and shared possibilities. Electrons move down the outside of a wire at the speed of honey. Our own bodies are unstable Carbon-14 constantly emitting radiation and somehow women emit more than men. When we die, that very moment is preserved in half-lives that could allow others countless generations in the future to know when. Half-lives of our atoms spitting out bits of themselves beyond the forces that bind. The fact that it's mostly empty space is just the doorstep to understanding what a miracle it feels like that any of this works at all.