Dimitri Coelho Mollo<p>Cool, accessible article over at <a href="https://social.sunet.se/tags/Aeon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Aeon</span></a> about the strangeness and complexity of atoms and their components, and how the popular idea that atoms are mostly empty space is problematic.<br>(The author mentions an episode of Cosmos in which Sagan says that, and which I remember vividly despite the decades in between)<br><a href="https://aeon.co/essays/why-the-empty-atom-picture-misunderstands-quantum-theory" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">aeon.co/essays/why-the-empty-a</span><span class="invisible">tom-picture-misunderstands-quantum-theory</span></a></p><p><a href="https://social.sunet.se/tags/PhilosophyOfPhysics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>PhilosophyOfPhysics</span></a> <a href="https://social.sunet.se/tags/quantumtheory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>quantumtheory</span></a> <a href="https://social.sunet.se/tags/ScienceComm" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ScienceComm</span></a></p>