This Animation Shows You How Small Atoms Really Are

Atoms: The building blocks of everything around us. But how small are they? This animation will show you.

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[stuart]

"1.4 x 10^-7 a value is too abstract"

"700, 000 too isn't necessarily conceivable"

Illustration; a human sausage 10 parsecs long

Ah, now it makes sense...

[cutthroatawesome]

So, what happened to that lawyer I sent to your sausage factory?

“Gone, reduced to atoms.”

[unclecreepy]

Ant-Man : Made up of atoms.
Also Ant-Man : Can shrink to a size smaller than an electron.

[alexbenavidez]

"Let's scale this in a fun way!"

*inserts the corpses of humans into a bloody meat grinder over and over to create an inconceivably long chain of fleshy meat for reference*

10/10 with the background animations.

[jaspersureshot]

6:37 "What if we put a human, obviously a bad one like a murderer or a lawyer, through a meat grinder." I died lol

[Zsokorad]

Hair...paint brush...sand...human meat grinder... that escalated quickly.

[ON]

*respect for the person who sacrificed his body to line up the atoms in his body across the universe...*

[allmightherehe]

Shows Thanos screaming and then Antman moving atoms around.


"You've had my curiosity, but now you have my attention"

[alabamaal]

One remarkable aspect of atoms that is usually not adequately described is just how empty an atom is. Relatively speaking, the electron shells of an atom are an incredible distance from the nucleus, which is not very large itself. For example, if the nucleus of a helium atom was expanded to the size of a golf ball (42.7 mm in diameter) the two electrons of the helium atom, whose distance was also expanded the same proportion, would reside about 2.1 kilometers (1.3 miles) from the nucleus.

If Earth was at a proportional distance from the sun as the nucleus and electrons of helium, Earth would be about 465 times farther out (43 billion miles; 69 billion kilometers.)

Larger atoms are somewhat more compact, relative to nucleus size, but the distances between the electron shells and the nucleus would still be relatively enormous.

[ThatJosiahGuy]

"70 kilograms of human" made me chuckle for some reason

[nikodemossowski]

'you'd need to shear off the hair of around 4 mil people'

military tribunal in Nuremberg wants to know your location

[YEdwardP]

I love these kinds of videos and you did an excellent job of it.

But I should also say to anyone watching and is worried that they can't wrap their minds around this: don't worry, neither do we scientists.

For example, I'm a molecular neurobiologist and when I make my chemical solutions, a lot of the underlying quantities are not things I think about constantly. For example, I work with a molecular called ATP, which has a molar mass of around 507g/mol. What is a mole? In the same way every day people say "a dozen" to mean 12, a "mole" (symbol: mol) is a number: specifically 602 200 000 000 000 000 000 000 (6.022 x 10^23).

Basically, because atoms are so small, you can't really start working with amounts of it that makes sense on a human scale, with me literally weighing powder forms of ATP on a balance, before you get to ridiculously big numbers.

But when I'm making my calculations to prepare solutions for the experiment, I don't need to actually imagine 6.022 * 10^23 molecules of ATP in my mind. I just need to know the molar mass and perform my calculations.

Likewise, for physicists who work with astronomical objects that are millions of solar masses heavy, they don't try to imagine what it would be like to deal with the "weight" of a million suns. They make measurements and follow the math. And don't get me started on quantum physicists, where there is no every day intuition that can help you make sense of it. You have to make observations, describe it mathematically, and then see what other conclusions follow from the math and then test those predictions. But our every day intuition don't work there.

Both with the extraordinarily big and the extraordinarily small, mathematics becomes the extrasensory organ of scientists.

[bealumbo]

A bad human like a murderer or a lawyer 😂

Me an aspiring law student: well he’s not wrong

[gort]

so first you have thanos screaming in agony at 0:45 and then you blend in ant man... 🤔🤔🤔🤔

[huskyrescue]

Let me help you to get a clearer image:
The numbers of atoms you can fit in the volume of a walnut is approximately equal with the number of walnuts you can fit in Earth's volume.

[lucasjohnson]

Imagine a 600lbs super obese person they probably have enough atoms to stretch the visible universe.

[drsharkboy]

0:43 Ant Man defeats Thanos by tearing his molecules apart.

[khyzan]

Best option for space travel. Deconstruct a human and build a bridge from his atoms to the nearest star! It's the perfect plan!!!

[maxskarpe]

Want to travel arround the world?
No problem, I´ll start the meat grinder!

[althor]

What's really mind boggling though, is that we tend to think of an atom as a solid, when in actuality, the nucleus is the only solid part, and the nucleus of the atom only makes up a tiny fraction of an atoms structure.
An atom is actually mostly empty space.