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They move so fast that you end up with a 3d representation of the orbital shape that looks solid. But in reality if you could freeze at any one moment, there would be dots of electrons in random looking places around the nucleus.
Or we think we are. We are nothing more than a probability. Each atom is full of empty space. How am I so solid when I am so full of space? Why does matter not sift through me as though I were a ghost?
I've been neutron scattering. I've fired streams of neutrons at my samples and collected the scattered hits to tell me what shape my molecules are. The neutrons go into my samples and bounce off from inside the atoms and the angles in the scattering patterns tell me the size and shape.
Photons are both waves and particles.
Particles goes through me, so am I really solid? Am I really here?
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