I know, it sounds like something straight out of a sci-fi movie<\/a><\/em><\/strong> or a late-night Reddit rabbit hole, but the math actually checks out. It all comes down to the weird, hollow nature of the atoms that make us up.<\/p>\n\n\n\n To understand how 8 billion people can fit in your hand, we have to look at the atom<\/strong>. When we were kids, we were taught that atoms look like little solar systems with a solid center and little balls orbiting around it. But that model is a bit misleading because it doesn\u2019t capture the scale of the emptiness<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Here is the breakdown of why we are basically “ghosts” made of organized energy:<\/p>\n\n\n\n When I first wrapped my head around this, I realized that everything I touch\u2014my keyboard, my phone, even my own skin\u2014is just a collection of tiny points of matter separated by vast distances of void.<\/p>\n\n\n\n So, if we took a “vacuum cleaner” for the universe and sucked all that empty space out of the atoms of every person on Earth, we would be left with just the nuclei and electrons.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The result? The entire human race would shrink down to the size of a sugar cube<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n But don’t let the size fool you. Since we haven’t lost any of our actual mass, that tiny cube would be unimaginably dense. I did some checking, and that little cube would weigh approximately 5 billion tons<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n To put that into perspective, that\u2019s about the same weight as 900 Great Pyramids of Giza<\/strong>. If you tried to pick up that sugar cube, you\u2019d be trying to lift a mountain.<\/p>\n\n\n\n If we are mostly empty space, why don’t our feet just pass through the ground? Why doesn’t my hand go right through my coffee mug?<\/p>\n\n\n\n It\u2019s not because we are “solid.” It\u2019s because of electromagnetic repulsion<\/strong>. The electrons in your atoms and the electrons in the chair you’re sitting on are both negatively charged. Since like charges repel, they push away from each other.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Ugu’s Note:<\/strong> You aren’t actually “touching” anything. You are just feeling the invisible force fields of trillions of atoms pushing back against you. We are floating on a cushion of electric fields!<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n You might wonder why I\u2019m talking about quantum physics on a tech and metaverse site. To me, this is the ultimate proof that reality is programmable<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n If the physical world is 99% empty space and governed by electrical signals, the line between “physical reality” and “digital reality” starts to get very blurry. In the Metaverse, we build worlds out of code; in the physical world, nature builds worlds out of empty space and energy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Understanding the “emptiness” of our world makes the idea of living in a digital simulation feel a lot less like a conspiracy theory and a lot more like a logical conclusion.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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\n\n\n\nThe Stats: A Quick Look at the Density<\/h2>\n\n\n\n