[Heartlander]

Had to look this one up:

The size of an atom is governed by the average location of its electrons. Nuclei are around 100,000 times smaller than the atoms they’re housed in. If the nucleus were the size of a peanut, the atom would be about the size of a baseball stadium. If we lost all the dead space inside our atoms, we would each be able to fit into a particle of lead dust, and the entire human race would fit into the volume of a sugar cube.

As you might guess, these spaced-out particles make up only a tiny portion of your mass. The protons and neutrons inside of an atom’s nucleus are each made up of three quarks. The mass of the quarks, which comes from their interaction with the Higgs field, accounts for just a few percent of the mass of a proton or neutron. Gluons, carriers of the strong nuclear force that holds these quarks together, are completely massless.

If your mass doesn’t come from the masses of these particles, where does it come from? Energy. Scientists believe that almost all of your body’s mass comes from the kinetic energy of the quarks and the binding energy of the gluons.

[teeman8r]

scientists believe.... they don’t know...

know God and one knows the answers.

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[sagar]

“Business” Insider is into clickbaits now.

[BenLurkin]

Between the particles is not empty. It is filled with time.

[Carriage Hill]

Hey, I found the idiotic "liberalism gene" in human DNA...

[SandRat]

So??? Do still need to worry about the BORG?

[mrsmith]

Moon Mom: “I told you to clean up those bootprints!”
Moon Boy: “I tried but the vacuum cleaner wouldn’t work!”
Moon Mom: “Well then, go get the broom!”
Moon Boy: “Aw, Mom!!!!”

[Talisker]

Scientists believe that almost all of your body’s mass comes from the kinetic energy of the quarks and the binding energy of the gluons.

[I want the USA back]

All our atoms are as old as the universe. (Matter cannot be created nor destroyed - elementary Physics)
Afterglow of the Big Bang. That is, if you accept the theory.
“volume of a sugar cube.” How big would the sugar cube be if you took out all the ‘space’ between the atoms?

Golly gee whiz! go easy on the revelations here, my feeble brain might get overwhelmed.

[treetopsandroofs]

[Buckeye McFrog]

And when you tune your TV between stations, a small percentage of the static you see is actually the afterglow of the Big Bang.

Not anymore. The Big Bang missed the digital conversion deadline.

[NEWwoman]

thanks for the interesting post

[treetopsandroofs]

“Light from some stars takes so long to travel to our eyes that when you look at the star-speckled night sky you’re actually peering deep into the past. NASA’s Hubble Telescope can look as far back as 100 million years ago.”

Yet this source says 13.7 billion years....

http://www.space.com/17755-farthest-universe-view-hubble-space-telescope.html

[SparkyBass]

Buckaroo Banzai discovered this in '84... you can drive straight through a mountain in all that empty space, as long as your oscillation overthruster is in working order (the 8th dimension)

[ctdonath2]

A more doable exercise would be putting everyone inside a box where everyone has just enough room to stand - no “event-horizon” inducing physics, nothing immediately lethal.
Worth the read: http://waitbutwhy.com/2015/03/7-3-billion-people-one-building.html

[Opinionated Blowhard]

Maybe the entire human race already is in a sugar cube that is being dropped into a cup of hot coffee.

[Romans Nine]

“ex nihilo”

What a wonderful Creator we have! I will worship Him.

[Mr. Douglas]

I actually like to tell people that we basically don’t exist. That everything is perception and we are closer to the matrix than people realize, sans the battery part.I see the world as the equivalent of a holographic projection, but eternity with God will be much more real.

[RoosterRedux]

If that is true, why do I weight so darned much?;-)

Must be the beer.

[Scythian_Reborn]

How the Pyramid's were built

The Egyptians worshiped cats and so cats played a fundamental role in Egypt. The Egyptians took two reasonably simple laws having to do with gravity, combined them, and created a force unmatched even to this day.

* The first law was simple, toss a cat up into the air and it will always lands on it's feet. Egyptian children new this law well.

* The second law was equally simple. If you butter a piece of bread and then drop it the bread inevitably lands buttered side down.

Thus, the Egyptians combined these two laws by tying pieces of buttered bread to the backs of cats, being sure that the buttered side was facing upward on top of the cats back. They then created huge daisy chains of buttered back cats and would toss them up into the air. The gravitational force of the cat trying to land on it's feet would counter balance out the buttered bread trying to land buttered side down. Basically, a cat could hover using this technique, albeit it sideways. This lead to an incredibly stable grid of buttered back cats floating approximately 6 inches above the ground.

All that had to be done next was to load the stones onto the floating grids of buttered back cats (only needed to be lifted 6 inches). Two men could easily push along an 80 ton stone ...

[Dr. Sivana]

the entire human race (all 7 billion of us) would fit into the volume of a sugar cube.

That's like the "two scoops of raisins" in every package of Kellogg's Raisin Bran. The scoops must be different sizes as the boxes go from snack pack,to faily size, to Sam's Club size.

As there is no defined size for a sugar cube, it can be arbitrarily large.