i punch the wall and OUCH it hurts! damn those fake atoms!
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The atoms are moving much slower than those of water or gas. So not moving as fast makes them allot more solid. If you keep punching you will create liquid from your bloody hands lol.
Proof: The progression of water from solid ice, to liquid water, and then gas
Proof: The progression of water from solid ice, to liquid water, and then gas
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Hello. I'm not quite sure what your question is. However, atoms are solid, if you are asking if they are really there and are tangible. Atoms are made of subatomic particles such as protons and neutrons, which are themselves made of smaller component particles. Atoms and their immediate components are particles of matter and have quantifiable mass.
Perhaps you are referring to how there is quite a lot of space in between the nuclei of atoms. This can be demonstrated by Rutherford's gold foil experiment where particles passed through solid material. However, the experiment was also proof of the existence of the nuclei.
Your hand is very large comepared to the incredible number of atoms or molecules that make up your wall, and so your hand will not pass through it.
If you are referring to "solid" as in one of the few states of matter, such states typically apply to substances or a collection of atoms or molecules. This does not usually apply to an individual atom. Your wall, if you are using the word "solid " in this sense, is in the solid state in the usual everyday conditions.
Below is a quick read of Rutherford's gold foil experiment on Wikipedia, if you do not want to look through a physics text.
Perhaps you are referring to how there is quite a lot of space in between the nuclei of atoms. This can be demonstrated by Rutherford's gold foil experiment where particles passed through solid material. However, the experiment was also proof of the existence of the nuclei.
Your hand is very large comepared to the incredible number of atoms or molecules that make up your wall, and so your hand will not pass through it.
If you are referring to "solid" as in one of the few states of matter, such states typically apply to substances or a collection of atoms or molecules. This does not usually apply to an individual atom. Your wall, if you are using the word "solid " in this sense, is in the solid state in the usual everyday conditions.
Below is a quick read of Rutherford's gold foil experiment on Wikipedia, if you do not want to look through a physics text.
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The particles (ions, atoms or molecules) are packed closely together. The forces between particles are strong enough so that the particles cannot move freely but can only vibrate. As a result, a solid has a stable, definite shape, and a definite volume. Solids can only change their shape by force, as when broken or cut.
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the atoms are very closely packed and sort of become one whole surface, and they are also moving around at very high speeds, think of it as a fan, when you turn it on and try to throw somethin at it, doesn't it bounce back? the atoms are doing the same, moving around very fast and repelling anything that encounters it, well unless the force is huge.