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Q: Lord Rutherford found that most of an atom consists of empty space. This means that the
chair on which you are sitting is mostly empty space. Why, therefore, don't you fall through the
chair onto the floor? 1.
Solution
To explain why we must look at the electrons. Unfortunately, much of what we are taught at
school is simplified – electrons do not orbit the center of an atom like planets around the sun,
like you may have been taught. Instead, think of electrons like a swarm of bees or birds, where
the individual motions are too fast to track, but you still see the shape of the overall swarm.
In fact, electrons dance – there is no better word for it. But it’s not random dancing –
it’s more like ballroom dancing, where they move in set patterns, following steps laid down
by a mathematical equation named after Erwin Schrödinger.
These patterns can vary – some are slow and gentle, like a waltz whereas some are fast and
energetic, like a Charleston. Each electron keeps to the same pattern, but once in a while, it may
change to another, as long as no other electron is doing that pattern already. No two electrons in
an atom can do the same step: this rule is called the Exclusion Principle.
So why does a chair feel solid?
If you touch the chair, then the electrons from atoms in your fingers become close to the
electrons in the chair’s atoms. As the electrons in one atom get close enough to the nucleus
of the other, the patterns of their dances change. This is because an electron in a low energy level
around one nucleus can’t do the same around the other – that slot’s already taken by
one of its own electrons. The newcomer must step into an unoccupied, more energetic role. That
energy has to be supplied by the force from your probing finger.
So pushing just two atoms close to each other takes energy, as all their electrons need to go into
unoccupied high-energy states. Trying to push all the chair-atoms and finger-atoms together
demands an awful lot of energy – more than your muscles can supply. You feel that, as
resistance to your finger, which is why and how the chair feels solid to your touch.
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  • 1. Q: Lord Rutherford found that most of an atom consists of empty space. This means that the chair on which you are sitting is mostly empty space. Why, therefore, don't you fall through the chair onto the floor? 1. Solution To explain why we must look at the electrons. Unfortunately, much of what we are taught at school is simplified – electrons do not orbit the center of an atom like planets around the sun, like you may have been taught. Instead, think of electrons like a swarm of bees or birds, where the individual motions are too fast to track, but you still see the shape of the overall swarm. In fact, electrons dance – there is no better word for it. But it’s not random dancing – it’s more like ballroom dancing, where they move in set patterns, following steps laid down by a mathematical equation named after Erwin Schrödinger. These patterns can vary – some are slow and gentle, like a waltz whereas some are fast and energetic, like a Charleston. Each electron keeps to the same pattern, but once in a while, it may change to another, as long as no other electron is doing that pattern already. No two electrons in an atom can do the same step: this rule is called the Exclusion Principle. So why does a chair feel solid? If you touch the chair, then the electrons from atoms in your fingers become close to the electrons in the chair’s atoms. As the electrons in one atom get close enough to the nucleus of the other, the patterns of their dances change. This is because an electron in a low energy level around one nucleus can’t do the same around the other – that slot’s already taken by one of its own electrons. The newcomer must step into an unoccupied, more energetic role. That energy has to be supplied by the force from your probing finger. So pushing just two atoms close to each other takes energy, as all their electrons need to go into unoccupied high-energy states. Trying to push all the chair-atoms and finger-atoms together demands an awful lot of energy – more than your muscles can supply. You feel that, as resistance to your finger, which is why and how the chair feels solid to your touch.