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Old 4th July 2012, 12:50 PM   #128
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Originally Posted by Skeptic Ginger View Post
I didn't just mean the bosons or photons or gravitons for that matter. I just meant of all the elementary particles what do you get.

We tend to view solid things as taking up the amount of space that their visible mass occupies. But there's a lot space between the molecules, and a lot of space between the protons and electrons within the molecules and a lot of space between the particles that make up the protons and neutrons and so on. I was just wondering what you'd have left if you squeezed all the proverbial air out of the molecule balloons.
The beginnings of a black hole????
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