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Old 01-09-2012, 09:48 AM   #46
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Physicists will often say to people, everything you see around us is mostly empty space, but rarely do you get a great example of just what they mean...

If you took the Empire state building, removed all the space in the building between particles you could shrink it to the size of a grain of rice, and that grain would weigh 100īs of millions of pounds.

Thanks Brian Green!
Who would've thunk?!

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