A scaled model of the hydrogen atom

  • with a golf ball as the nucleus
  • the electron would be 3 miles away (the radius)
  • the area of the electron’s orbit would be 1010 greater than that of the golf ball
  • the volume of space that the atom would occupy would be 1015 greater than that of the golf ball
  • a volumetric ratio the same as 1 second is to 30 million years
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