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inch). But the sub a tom ic par ti cles are hun dreds of thou sands of times
small er than the atom itself. Almost all the atom is empty. If an atoms'
nucle us were enlarged to the size of a grain of rice, the size of the whole
atom would be that of a foot ball sta di um, with the elec trons as minute
specks of dust fly ing around the outer stands. At the begin ning of the
20th cen tu ry, British phys i cist Sir Arthur Eddington dram a tized this
fact:
I am sit ting at a table, writ ing this paper. However, when I describe
this "real" table in the lan guage of sci ence as I under stand it, it is "a
ghost"; in fact it is made of atoms that are them selves most ly empty
space.. 4
The phys i cist and psy chol o gist Peter Russell states that in fact, the
0.0000001% in ques tion does not rep re sent mat ter as we know it:
With the devel op ment of quan tum the o ry, phys i cists have found
that even sub a tom ic par ti cles are far from solid. In fact, they are not
much like mat ter at all—at least, noth ing like mat ter as we know it.
They can't be pinned down and meas ured pre cise ly. Much of the
time they seem more like waves than par ti cles. They are like fuzzy
clouds of poten tial exis tence, with no def i nite loca tion. Whatever
mat ter is, it has lit tle, if any, sub stance. 5

Hans-Peter Durr, a pro fes sor of phys ics and head of the Max-
Planck Physics Institute, clear ly express es the fact that "mat ter was not
made from mat ter." 6
Therefore, even though you per ceive that the mat ter we touch is
hard in the struc ture of mat ter, there is actu al ly noth ing to give rise to
this solid hard ness. The atoms that com prise that mat ter con sist of no
more than empty spa ces and ener gy waves.

THE FORCES THAT HOLD THE ATOM TOGETHER

How can par ti cles too small to be seen with the naked eye be
arranged in empty space to form an atom? These par ti cles give rise to
the atom with a very spe cial cre a tion. One of the most impor tant fea -

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