Timeline for How much space does an atom occupy? [closed]
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| Jun 20, 2015 at 4:03 | vote | accept | Sourav Kanta | ||
| Jun 11, 2015 at 13:11 | history | closed |
ACuriousMind♦ yuggib LDC3 Kyle Kanos JamalS |
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| Jun 9, 2015 at 15:17 | comment | added | ACuriousMind♦ | "Colliding" essentially means "interacting" and "breaking" means an interaction where one system splits into two which don't interact much afterwards. None of these needs notion of "size". Perhaps look also at this question where the notion of "solidity" for an atom is discussed. | |
| Jun 9, 2015 at 15:16 | review | Close votes | |||
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| Jun 9, 2015 at 15:09 | comment | added | Sourav Kanta | @ACuriousMind My knowledge about this subject is almost negligible as compared to you people.My question is purely out of curiosity. I think of an atom as a solid object which occupies a definite volume or space as I have often heard my teachers saying "Two atoms collide with each other ......" or "An atom breaks up into two particles ..... . | |
| Jun 9, 2015 at 15:00 | comment | added | ACuriousMind♦ | This is unanswerable unless you define what you mean by "space that an atom occupies". Quantum physics, generally, has no precise notion of "occupied space". | |
| Jun 9, 2015 at 10:53 | answer | added | pela | timeline score: 1 | |
| Jun 9, 2015 at 10:39 | history | edited | Qmechanic♦ | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Jun 9, 2015 at 10:33 | history | edited | John Rennie | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Jun 9, 2015 at 10:33 | history | asked | Sourav Kanta | CC BY-SA 3.0 |