Bill Nye - Atoms 1
Science
The structure of atom
Are you certain? Of course. You found them in everything. Yes, sir. There are tiny, they're filled with empty space, and they are the fundamental building blocks of all matter. So, if we could somehow control the market on these things, just think of the possibilities. Sir, you're. You're talking about Bill Nye the science guy. Bill Bill Bill Bill Bill Bill Nye the science guy science rules. Bill by the sunshine. Inertia is a property of matter. Bill Bill Bill. Bill Bill Bill Nye the science guy. Brought to you by elements building your world one atom at a time. This door, this tie, this keypad, and this guy are all things. And things are made of stuff, tiny pieces of stuff. Run. No, I mean tiny, tiny pieces of stuff. Much tinier than you can see with the human eye.
Now, look around and count how many different things there are. Yeah, count everything. There's tires and tubes. There's kids and cows. There's wood. And there's force. Fish in the sea. They're stars in the sky. There's even kitchen sinks. You can count thousands, millions. Billions of things. We call all of this stuff. Matter. It turns out that if we break matter down, take it completely apart. All of these things are made of just a few things. Imagine cutting a piece of cheese in half. Then, in half again. And in half again. And again. And again, and again. Push it again. And again, and again, and again, so again, and again, and again, and again, and again, and again, and again, and again, again, and again, and again, there we go, and again, then again, again, we have a and again. Again, getting. Done it. Eventually, it ended up with a piece too small to cut.
There's the no knife, sharp enough. Tiny, tiny pieces that couldn't be broken apart in a farther. They'd be unbreakable. We call them Adams. That's from a Greek word that means uncuttable. Atoms are too small to see, even with a regular microscope like this. Here is a model, a first look at an app. Now here are the main parts. Well, they're particles. Parts, particles, get it? Anyway, in the middle, are very heavy particles. And buzzing around the middle are very light particles. Now, if we could see an atom, it couldn't look anything like this because atoms are mostly empty. Take a look at this. It's our proper proportion, giant atom model of science. Now, this part isn't very giant. That's because it's just the nucleus, the middle of an atom. Now in here are two kinds of particles. Protons and neutrons. No one knows what they would really look like.
The protons have a positive electrical charge, like a spark. And the neutrons have no charge. They're neutral. They just hang out in the nucleus. Now, buzzing around the outside of the nucleus are very small particles called electrons. Maybe you've heard of them. In fact, the flow of electrons from one atom to another is called electricity. If this vibrating buzzing ball is the nucleus of an atom. How far away do you think the electron would be? Well, as far as you could jump. No? As far as you could throw a ball. Uh uh. As far as you could run, well, yeah. Take a look. You can see it from here. It's way up in.
The electron would be here. 500 meters. 5 soccer fields from the nucleus. So everything that's made of atoms. Everything that you can touch and feel is mostly empty space. Empty space. Empty space. Empty space. Now, the electron weighs over a 10,000 of those particles in the middle. And it's going around so fast that it's only here now and then. It's here. And then here and then. I gotta go. An atom