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How small is the atom?



I think, on Habré, there is no person on Gikah who is not aware of how small the microcosm is - all these electrons, protons, neutrons, atomic nuclei and everything else. However, it is very difficult to imagine the actual sizes of elementary particles.

I remember that in the Soviet “Children's Encyclopedia” the following comparison is made: if you increase five kopecks to the size of the Earth, then the atom will be equal in size to five kopecks (here it means not an nucleus, but an atom with electrons). It's easier to figure out what's what. But there is one interesting video where all sizes are shown even more clearly. This is the video I propose to watch in the sequel.

There are Russian subtitles that you may actually need. After watching this video, the size of the atom becomes clear - and all the analogies given in the video are remembered for a long time. It is clear that this video is not the only one; therefore, I propose to share in the comments similar materials that help to understand the size of something, it does not matter in the macrocosm or microcosm.
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Source: https://habr.com/ru/post/375893/


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