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You are almost entirely empty space

Blow an atom's nucleus up to the size of a marble and the nearest electron sits hundreds of meters away — nothing in between.

Squeeze that emptiness out of every atom in humanity and the whole species fits inside a sugar cube.

Nothing solid has ever touched anything else: what you feel is forces pushing back across the gap.

Source: blog.sciencemuseum.org.uk

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