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what's the empty space between the atoms made of?


Nothing (or a probabilistic electron cloud? I don’t think it counts as “being made of” something in a meaningful way)


when you’re at that scale you need to have a good idea of what you mean by “made of” before you can get an answer. You end up trying to figure out what it means for a space to be occupied or unoccupied and coming to the conclusion that space is either 100% occupied or 0% occupied but not really anything in between which isn’t just an arbitrary threshold




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