What's In Between Atoms?

I was going to answer your question and started to write down a concise, clear explanation, when suddenly I looked up and saw your avatar. "Holy Crap!", I screamed, "A talking sheep!"

I became so rattled that I forgot what I was going to say.


and that little incident last Saturday -- don't say a friggin' word!

Why does there have to be anything between atoms? As far as we understand, there is nothing, but that does not hold true for gravity, etc. It is not something which we easily envision, but mass is just one aspect of energy according to theory, so unless we solve singularity, we won't completely understand how gravity, magnetism, and other forces operate.

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In between my toes there is toe-jam.

Therefore, whatever we find in between atoms must be atom-jam.

I say this based on scientific and linguistic principle.

F@ck knows, maybe the stuff that makes up the bubbles in beer.

Who's F@ck, and where can we find her?

Hi!

I think the keywords 'spacetime' and 'vacuum zero-point energy' might
be excellent for searching the google.

As far as I understand, the General Relativity says there is no empty space, there is always at least gravity which is really 'space-time' .
I also think the other theory Quantum physics says there is no such thing as a vacuum, there is a sea of unseen movement going on there, a lot of particles appearing and immediately disappearing.
And I believe other theories, esp. String theory agree with Quantum theory and add or remove some details.
Recently (last years) there is a popular 'dark energy' thing that exists everywhere unseen and accelerates the universe...

My point is, good ol' atom seems to be the odd one here :wink: .

I believe there is a lot to be discovered in the 'emptiness' - be it
inside or outside us .

Relative

Thank you relative, and welcome to the forum!

Probability "space" of particles.

One theory is that there is nothing in between atoms.
So much nothing that the atoms are all actually the same atom.
After all, there is nothing in between something and itself!

Refer: The Universe as a Hologram
Some really neat ideas in there!