You Are Ninety-Nine Point Nine Percent Empty Space - And That Emptiness Is the Fullness the Mystics Described

If you could remove all the empty space from the atoms that constitute every human being on Earth - if you could compress the actual matter, the protons and neutrons and electrons, into a volume with...

If you could remove all the empty space from the atoms that constitute every human being on Earth - if you could compress the actual matter, the protons and neutrons and electrons, into a volume with no space between them - the entire human race would fit into a volume smaller than a sugar cube.

This is not an exaggeration. Here's the thing: it's atomic physics. Know what I mean?The atom is almost entirely empty space.

The nucleus, which contains virtually all of the atom's mass, occupies approximately one quadrillionth of the atom's volume.

The rest is emptiness - or more precisely, the electromagnetic field that holds the electrons in their probabilistic orbits around the nucleus. You are ninety-nine point nine percent nothing.