Unraveling the secrets of the Big Bang — OZONE Asylum, home of the Mad Scientists

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Your Text: Insert Slimies » Insert UBB Code » Close Last Tag \| All Tags UBB Help	[quote] [b]Tao said:[/b] As an electron has no mass the atom would be actually something like 98% nothing, nothing [/quote] Actually electrons do have mass: .511 MeV (roughly 9.10938188 × 10^-31 kilograms, if you like kilos better :p ). For comparison, a proton has a mass of 938.272 MeV and a neutron is 939.566 MeV. Both approximately 2000x larger then an electron. However, an atoms structure is still almost entirely empty space (I think much greater than 99%). Another crash course is subatomic particles: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elementary_particle http://www.pha.jhu.edu/~dfehling/ http://www.pha.jhu.edu/~dfehling/particle.gif (super-huge image... kinda hard to read, you just have to scroll around the page :( but it has a good visual representation of the different particles (as per the Standard Model) and their details and the structure of protons, neutrons, etc, but it doesn't include the Higgs) -- Any sufficiently advanced bug is indistinguishable from a feature. Loading...
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