A closer look
Atoms are over ninety-nine percent empty space, meaning that all the solid matter in the entire universe is essentially just an illusion created by electromagnetic forces pushing against each other. If you were to remove all the empty space from the atoms that make up every single human being on Earth, the entire human race could be compressed into the size of a single sugar cube. Every single building, mountain, and frustratingly dense coworker is practically made of nothing, held together by sheer physics and stubbornness. Next time you bump your toe on a coffee table, you can take comfort in the fact that neither you nor the table actually exist as solid objects, making your pain nothing more than a highly dramatic atomic misunderstanding
