Just How Small is an Atom?
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- Опубликовано: 25 авг 2024
- Just how small are atoms? And what's inside them? The answers turn out to be astounding, even for those who think they know. This fast-paced animation uses spectacular metaphors (imagine a blueberry the size of a football stadium!) to give a visceral sense of the building blocks that make our world.
Lesson by Jonathan Bergmann, animation by Cognitive Media.
Fun facts:
1.) There are 7 octillion atoms in a human body.
2.) If there was no empty space between atoms, the entire human population could fit into an apple.
Between atoms or within atoms?
Wait I heard it could fit into a sugar cube
Ellen chattergirl here’s one
Since atoms are empty space the only reason you don’t fall through them is because the electrons are repelling or pushing you away from them
😱😱😱😨😨😨😰😰😰
That’s more easier to understand than the guy in this video.
By watching this video atoms are learning about atoms.....
it's our brain trying to figure more out about itself and the universe surrounding it - although you must know, our brain communicates with electrical signals called "action potentials" and isn't all atoms, there is much much more that composes the human conscience
Consciousness* and no, there isn't really "much much more" at all. Maybe also isolated electrons if you will.
did u notice the gorila
rusko dudesko you're the type of dude people hate to watch movies with.
Memories are not a matter, your statement is wrong!
The way he talk, Disney should create a character of him
true doe he will be perfect for it
A 5 minute video taught me more than 5 hours worth of classes back in highschool.
bad teachers hurt me on another level
5 hours ! Make it our whole schooling life ! Gosh ! Wish we had RUclips back in my schooling days ! HEHE
No it didn't.
@@jasonspades5628 its a joke (kind of)
@@honeyman6006 ...oh..
I like how the narrator thought Imperial units would be easier to understand than Metric
Wow wow wow who's to say your FOOTBALL STADIUMS are a widely recognisable size comparative anyway?
Bunny yea in density I only understand grams per cubic centimeter or g/cubic cm
Lol ikr
*T H A T 'S A M E R I C A B I T C H*
@@markcox8256 *_I'm American and I still don't know how big a football stadium is._*
Lets split the atom an half they said!
It will be fun they said!
You can't cut an atom in half; they are INDIVISIBLE
Shardul Singh its for nuclear power
Shardul Singh You can, you have quarks
No one actually did that, man
He probably is talking about the difference between splitting an atom and cutting an atom, ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
I remember having an existential crisis during chemistry once when I first learned “nothing” is between the nucleus and the electrons.
I came home and I was all like “everything is empty, I’m empty, the universe is empty. We’re all just chucks of somethings floating around in pure nothingness”
I had a similar reaction when I started thinking about forces. How can two things separated from one another *by empty space* possibly affect each other??? I went on to study physics and now I know about particles that ‘mediate’ forces as well as fields that, say give some particles mass (the Higgs field). But it never really makes sense, and the further inward you go the less sense it makes. Now I watch a lot of documentaries about history.
@@dukeon I dont belive u really think that gravitation is a real force, It's just property of space itself. Imo gravitons do not exist, gravitational waves is enough for our understanding of physics
Hehe same but we have a purpose for why we’re here becuase God planned it.
@@riyascorner9198 yeah im not religious
It is not empty space but for the sake of simplicity, pretend it is. It would probably make your brain cells die if you go and try to answer what the empty space is. Not actually
*"But- I bet you've never really thought about how small atoms are"*
Me, who's had existential crisis because I think about it so much:
*"i w i l l f i g h t y o u"*
You use energy from atoms to fight atoms. You are stuck in this inception.
The world is basically mostly empty space?
Joseph Stalin Technically there is no such thing as true emptiness. The world, (aka the earth), has an atmosphere filled with oxygen and nitrogen and hydrogen particles that you breathe and make up the air around you. Even in space it's not fully empty. Scientists have theorized that it's actually filled with something called dark energy and dark matter. They don't actually know what it is, but they do know it gives off some level of low radiation.
NeutralGuyDoubleZero yeah but there still is vacumms
+Credits uknown Yes but even vacuums have some form of unidentified matter in them.
NeutralGuyDoubleZero how do you know
+Credits unknown Read my first reply to Stalin
The density thing really blew my mind. This was very well put together. 👍
Thumb👍up⬆into the😳air♒
"We shall soon show these (disbelievers for their guidance) Our signs even in the remotest regions (of the earth) and in their own persons until it becomes quite manifest to them that this (Qur'ân) is the lasting truth infact. Is it not enough (for them) that your Lord indeed keeps watch over everything?"
the holly quran chapter 41 verse 53
Avagadro's Constant
Right that's literally impossible in the real world!!! You can't even get a tire in a 1 foot box let alone 6 billion smalls cars!!! How is that possible!!???
Me: Watches video
Also me: 5:07
5:14 *
Guy: *holds atom in fingers*
Atom: *Snaps in half*
Guy: Oh fu-
+Goosey Fish. you can not cut a atom using just hands.
@@janeli5014 r/wooosh
@Matthew Stone bruh
IM EXPLAINING!
@@janeli5014 still woooosh moment
3:20 gg this will bring back harambe
Just was about to make a Haramble joke at this time mark XDDDDD
lmaoo
but the main question is...
will ur joke bring back harambe?
XPumpkins no... :''(
NolanTheGamer :'''''''''''''''( reep harambe
XPumpkins r3st in p3p3roni
Oh wait, what are atoms made of?
"Quarks"
How small are they?
"5.2 yactometers"
Stasis Delta what are quarks made of?
Cringe Bob they are made of planck particle and planck are made of quantum space fabric
(my brain is heating when imagine those things)
Herman Dinova what is quantum space fabric made of?
Cringe Bob i said my brain is heating i cannot thinking now
it's been 3 days, has your brain cooled off?
This really changed my perspective of how small an atom could be. I was totally clueless it was this small, like I'm still kinda in shock with the density thing! 🤯🤯💀
The intros at the beggining of the video (the music) are always so nostalgic and calm yet irregular and strange.
*Brain.exe has stopped working*
Nnnnnnnnnnnno
Faxwy
Maybe because your brain is mostly *empty*
Luthfi Muhammad lol
Lol
this video is weirdly disturbing, just in how it's animated.....
LordMatt48 yeah. but i cant describe why tho?
yeah.
The motion is unnatural (darn you flash animation.... It's hard to make flash animation look good.) The random 3D hurts my brain a bit because it doesn't fit well, and the art style is horrible.
LordMatt48 totally agree - probably good for 5 year olds
especially when they were filling the earth. like it was just unsettling.
For me it was the blueberry
8 years later, I still end up here from science class~
"how many atoms are in a grapefruit?" is actually pretty funny without context
The switch in animation style at 1:14 almost gave me an epileptic seizure...
Sebkarp0 lol
Sebkarp0 r
XDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD
Find, nine circles wave (dont do it if you realy are epilectic)
Glad to know im not the only one XD
People who study atoms are just a lot of atoms trying to figure out what they are made of.
And the brain invented a name for itself :D
Says a lot of atoms trying to figure out themselves
This has to be my favourite ted ed video just because how energetic it is
1:13 kills me, especially when the camera zooms to the face. 😂🤣😂
4:16 thats how rgb works
What
@@ahuttee Red Green Blue
Super Psych real good booty
@@ltrizzle12 yup
Lcd work
You forgot to mention 99.9999999% of the atom is empty space.(not exaggerated)
That's why the actual density of the whole atom becomes much lower but when you compress those atoms and fill up the empty space and get trillions of those compressed atoms you get neutron stars which have immensely powerful gravity.
Well neutron stars are made of nuclei quarks which is made of illusionique energy which resembles solidity.
Azure Blue That's nonsense. You don't even know what you're talking about.
Do I not? Illusionique - Something that acts like an illusion. And yes there is energy acting as a solid and I meant *Nuclei which is made up of quarks
Azure Blue Btw nuclei are made of protons and neutrons which are made of 2 up and one down quark.
+Akshay Sharma Yes and many other thingd like gluons
Let's take a moment to appreciate just how smooth the animation is
I'm sure it's impressive for how quickly they had to make it
"Just how small is an atom?"
"Small!"
Splitting the atom sounds even more cool after watching this video!
how about sperm of an atom, how small do you think of that?
ernesto manila The fuck?
DAMN LOL
da faq
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This was the 7th grade science class's introduction to chemistry imagine how confused the kids were the whole class XD
A story goes two men were working on the fusion of machine and man. To exponentially increase the capabilities of human physiology and intelligence, they wanted to inject nanochips into the body that once inside, integrated with the body at a cellular level.
They experimented on small animals, namely mice, finding their intelligence was off the charts. These mice could solve puzzles at astonishing rates. They outlived their unaltered counterparts by months, even years. They would sit and patiently wait for their next task knowing food was their reward.
One day, one of the men, in his haste, injected the solution into his bloodstream. He eventually developed the ability to see at a subatomic level. His partner was unaware until they found his body with a gun in his hand. He had shot himself. Next to him was a suicide note that read one line.
“It’s empty inside”
Uhhhh, ok 😶😬
underrated comment
Coming back to read my post one year later.. wondering if I had a few too many 😂
Video:Just how small is an atom?
Quarks:Let us introduce ourselves
Quarks: already showing off about their victory
Also Quarks: yea! I also got a trophy for being the tiniest
Preons: oi! Gimme dat trophy for being the tiniest thing.
Planck Particles: * bellowing laughter *
@yeahSOwhat you aren't advanced enough in science to know what they truly are. Watch a video about these particles.
@yeahSOwhat I may have misunderstood your comment.
When he changed the metric units to imperial I almost quit the video
Vjhe
Same
Americans
We can measure this in 4 football fields
You can just ignore the units... Y'know?
I remember me at the age of 7, watching this same video, thinking Kg/m cubed and lb/ft cubed are like advanced mathematics symbols that only the top-tier scientists use...
It is actually quite simple to use both. It is a mere ratio.
Yes, of course. But he was 7 yo, dont miss the point
LMFAOO
*Imagine if a nucleus is enlarged to the extent of a multiverse, and within that multiverse there is a universe for other life in another world.*
and outside the multiverses we know that would be Omniverse and outside of it the are someone bigger than our Omniverse who’s explaining our Omniverse like an atoms
I am weak to understand in English, but i have fallen in love with this channel
5:14 "I think I'm tired. OOOOOAHHHHHAHUM"
Pours coffee
Ian the Bubbian Why did you have to type it?
we all watched the video pal, you're not special for typing out something you saw.
i think he is trying to point out how unnecessary that was to put in the video.
I found this funny for some reason
smoking wand its funny because of how unnecessary i t is
To understand small things we compare it with big things
And to understand big things we compare it with small ones
😂😂
😂😂😂😂
To understand anything we compare it with the thing we already know
l e t ' s c o m p a r e i t w i t h a f o o t b a l l f i e l d
So basically a differential equation?
@@neutronstar6739 Which one? The widely accepted football field (Soccer) or the hated on, it should die in a hole football field (Pigskin, which is the name of the ball we Americans use.)
My favorite analogy related to atoms is that there are more atoms in a grain of sand than there are stars in the entire universe.
Really? I find that hard to believe.
this is MINDBLOWING I literally died watching this little blueberry growing
The one thing I hated about this video is the outdated atomic model. Please up-vote this so people understand that electrons are not swirling around a nuclear like some roller-coaster. Jimmy Neutron isn't real life. Electron Orbital clouds is the correct way to demonstrate atoms. Also, I didn't have a problem with him using the term "empty space" but they should have put an asterisk next to that because there is no such thing as COMPLETELY empty space in our observable universe. It's a colloquial term used to simplify the issue.
Other than that this was a cool video for educating people on how small atoms are.
Hi, can you elaborate on the "electron orbital clouds"? are you saying electrons are static and not whizzing around the nucleus?
Electrons do "move" but not in defined patterns as far as we can tell. There are regions, or clouds around a nucleus with different percentages of probability. For example, there can be a higher chance for an electron to be in one particular region than another in any given moment. However, they do pop up and disappear from moment to moment. It's also impossible to measure BOTH the momentum and location of an electron, you can only do one at a time.
+Al “Tekken” Dano the electrons are jumping around the the nuclear in a cloudy form :3
He did specify your point about empty space. You weren't listening
+Al “Tekken” Dano it isnt that detail....
n also he just named 3 elementary particles ... whats abt bosons etc..
3:18 haramber pops up in all the unexpected places.
Ruby Duby bgtgtghutnjuqiqu
Ruby Duby ecks deee!!xd
nice meme!!!1!eleven!!
Harambe predicted this
haramber.
1:11 This will be in my nightmares tonight
5:13 You're tired? DRINK THE ATOMS IN YOUR COFFEE
I have to say, the narrator (Jonathan Bergmann) is brilliant. I would have loved to have had him as a teacher.
"ill put it in english units"
*puts it in the ameritard system*
it was originally english
Englissssh...tard..ooo🤤
YEAH I SURE WANNA USE CHEESEBURGERS PER BALD EAGLE INSTEAD OF *ACTUAL UNITS*
You mean the system used by the only country that stood up to the Soviet Union and has been to the moon?
@@Dat_Boy_Dale_Gribble woooooooooow woooooooooow thanks for reminding me
Humanity is represented by you americans! All hail the USA!🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸
By that I mean that the Moon has the american flag! Couldn't we create anything to represent all countries and not just the USA? Of course not.
Its been 7 years and im still watching this its so awesome
that car part blew my mind.
Love how he said kg and m weren't English.
AMERICANISH
except english is british so is imperial
Ok, can we just, y'know... take the visuals of the fricking cars?! Let's stop complaining.
Complicated. This is all you need to know: There are 9,500,000 skin cells on a square inch of your body. And there are 100,000,000,000,000 atoms in a single cell.
Done.
what blows my mind is how this creature, human being knows all of these things!
This guy literally spoon fed the whole thing to me..and stillllllll 🤦🏻♂️
?
"I'll put it in English units!"
*converts English units to american units*
Edit: as people keep quoting incredibly helpful and totally not annoying history facts they've uselessly crammed into their heads for no reason, I feel the need to clarify. I do not care where the units came from, or who used them first or why, only where they *are used now.* Wherever metric is used, metric is of that place. Metric is English units, metric is French units, it is Canadian units etc. Imperial is american units, because that's where it's used.
alan smithee English is sometimes American
@@bigdogkgh8945 *_JUST 'SOMETIMES' BUT CHIEFLY BRITAIN!_*
America vs world:
America: ft, lbs, miles
World: kg, g, m, km
btw imperial are british
The thing is they are british units but only america still uses the british units and not britain cause america.
" The atom is made up of vast regions of empty spaces "
That's why I feel emptiness inside me most of the time 😂😂
Lmao that's unsettlingly depressing, cynic and humorous at the same time x')
I love dark humor
lol... Thats deep XD. also you just roasted yourself XD.
@@kevinpatty119 you posted this 4 months ago, i wanted to see if your opinion has changed,
Understandable have a great day-
I get the joke tho lol
@@blauwbeer556 you mean a year ago lol-
what about your thoughts? You posted that reply 8 months ago
1:14 So small that you can hold it in your finger? Ok thanks for the imformation.
Damn, this universe is very very complicated , even the most neglected thing can blow your mind once, you try to study it's machanism .
the universe*
The atom is still bigger, than the size of a lot of people's brains in the comment section.
You're the one who put a comma between "bigger" and "than".
Lol sandwich you're wrong. Our brains are the size of the nucleus not the atom
The Perfect Sandwich ikr
The Perfect Sandwich and your brain is in there too right
The video did mention density..
When he summarized everything in the end i thought he would come up with something new,other than 'im tired'
3:44 It was all going ok until he basically said that Imperial is better than Metric
When did he say that?
This short video explained this concept better than my teacher. It was SO helpful, especially the example with the cars, as it's impossible for me to visualize all of those crazy numbers! It's ridiculous how they use them to teach students these days. Anyway, thank you so much!!!
If you think Protons and Neutrons are small, wait till you see Quarks.
And strings?
Farar Rarara Haha now we're going even smaller.
Farar Rarara How small are strings relative to quarks? How small are quarks relative to protons?
Quarks are made out of Strings.
JiaMing Lim Unfortunately it is too small to look at, would have to put it in the CERN particle accelerator and check the results
I still don't understand how small is the atom.
Imagine the smallest thing you can think of and then scrap it because its not even close then imagine an even smaller thing then scrap it again (its like your not even trying) then imagine something not the even entirity of the human race can comprehend and then scrap that because its useless then imagine an even smaller thing and you get the point (stop trying nobody can)
Kristijan Madhukar hahahaha
Small
Brandi Chu Indeed. Small. D.
Compare a blueberry to the earth there you go...
0:32, that was enough for me to comprehend
See now i,m paranoid about atoms mutating to the size of blueberries
You probably already know that everything is made of little tiny things called *Adams*.
Voshchronos dun dun dun *click click* dun dun dun *click click* dun dun dun duuuun...
This is the weirdest fucking Ted-Talk I've ever watched
WalrusQuake same
why?
It's not a ted talk
Fantastic explanation.
I really would like to understand why some people mark thumbs down for a video like this.
Probably kids who had to watch this in school
Fun fact:
RUclips recommend this after 9 years
3:22 RIP Harambe.
May he Rest In Peace
only acceptable because this comment is from 2016, you sir recieve a free pass, but *you have been warned*
electrons out for harambe
nah fam i like my protons fresh
You guys know you're awesome? xD
So this is why they say an atom is 99.9% empty.
set 8's watched this then tried to blow up a blueberry
That animation style is friggin annoying.
yea
Don't watch it then.
Aboriginal Indigenous Defenders Don't comment then :O
detaart oh get roasted
I hate this argument, like, if you don't like it, don't watch it and don't hate/criticize it...
a large amount of atoms is teaching a large amount of atoms about atoms
Science in a nutshell
Thats creative!!!
Had to watch this in school
I’m never gonna look at a grape fruit the same again
:)
7년전에 만들어졌는데 이정도 퀄이 나오네 잘만들었다 이해가 되네
I didnt understand the part where u started to were u ended...
Alexander Møller Ikr.
The for the coment😀😀😀😀
Alexander Møller You mean Thx?
It all leads up to a simple answer:
It's very small.
Bunch of atoms are observing atoms right now
This is absolutely amazing
Worth watching any day!
Atoms are 99.999999999 empty space so everything you see is 99.999999999 nothing that's amazing!
Jack Scepter no wonder i feel so empty inside
so my PC is just nothing???
Matijoss Pro You and me are nothing
That still cant explain my weight
A magnet doesn't have to be very big to affect another magnet far away, it's not really about the conventional size of the atom, rather how far it's forces exceed.
i didnt understand the part where you said the density of the nucleus is 6b cars crashed,like what?
Saiyan boi Crushed, as in condensed. Same mass in less volume
You would have to squish all 6b of those cars into a 1x1 box
But aren't the cars made out of many , many atoms ?
If you took the mass of 6.2 billion cars, and fit it into a 1*1*1 box, the box would have the same density of a nucleus.
That was actually 5.66 trillion cars of 2 tonnes squished into 1 ft^3 box.....Calculate
" say this grapefruit was made of only nitrogen atoms"
*proceeds to animate about 100 lithium atoms lol*
This just made me realize that we are mostly made up of empty space
Wow The animation is getting better and better. This is great for me i am a visual learner, It helps me a a lot! way to go ted :) I am addicted to your channel.
I still think that the marble was a Mega Stone
me too I think its a mewtwonite
they predicted the future cause xy wasn't released when this video aasmuploaded
I love explanations with objects from everyday life.
Mr. Bergmann: "And what if we were to blow up the blueberry to the size of a football stadium?" :P
Mrs. Beauregarde: "VIOLET, NO!!" O.O
2:23 Right smack *DAB*
This video makes everything more complicated
That just means you have a lot left to learn.
:D
that's basic not even stepping into intro to chem stuff man - it get 1000000x more complex :D - and 1000000x more mind blowing and amazing
yeah.. pretty much the only way to give them a scale without zooming in and.. yeah, why not just zoom in?
Means you didn't know anything in the first place.
Now I’m afraid I’ll crack a tooth next time I eat blueberries.
This feels like a dream
Imagine an atom was a marble
How big would your fist be?
Earth
Thats the relative.....
It would feel very well the same as we are...
Arent everything the same? As an atom will be as big as a marble and the atoms of everything around us become a size of a marble therefore the *proportion will be 1:1.* However, energy doesn't rely on atoms whether light energy, sound energy, and etc. Therefore *the energy will be different.* Also what if an atom is as big as marble, would the *marble be infinite size*
Think of your pinky being the size of a standard room. Think of your pinky in that room, being the size of a standard room. Think of a rice grain the size of that room. Think of a rice grain in that room. That's the size of an atom.
I didn't say it was my analogy. I was just stating.
Lol
It’s way more smaller than that, your analogy is nonsence and even a molecule is larger than your analogy
This is a great comparison to the universe … just think about it … earth is like the size of an atom compared to the size of the universe
This is a great example for small kids, as you see, at the beginning of the montage, you see ted is holding an atom, while he is already made of atoms. Look, spiritually as he is speaking, at the end of the montage, he teaches you the density, of an atom. That’s all information I have about the montage. If your reading this, I appreciate you.
This is why neutron stars are so incredibly dense
yea one teaspoon full of it weighs really huge ...
It's as small as the chances for a women hitting me up
rip in da chat lol
No,I'd say much smaller 😁
but it's never zero
bigger XD
Hmm
*check*
..... Nah mate thats too small
Umm, yum... blueberries! With a side of atoms
_How BIG is the universe always blows up my mind!_
Imperial units are weird and I'm an american. I like base 10 unit systems like the metric system because of my OCD. 10mm=1cm, 10cm=1dm, 10dm=1m, 10m=1dkm, 10dkm=1hm, 10hm=1km, etc.
Decameter isn't dkm btw
Antichrist You can only blame American educational institutions like high school for that.
noah roberts yes because america is bad. It is SO Nationalist (not patriotic) because patriotism is being proud of your country NOT believing that it is better than everyone elses. It abandons logic like metric measurements because it is obsessed with being different
I don't agree with this comment, but I had to like it because it had 9 likes. The imperial system doesn't bother my OCD, but 9 likes instead of 10 does. It is really weird how OCD works.
Wheel on the bus