I found a fun science article in the Guardian today and thought it was worth passing on this quote: "It is hard to grasp just how small the atoms that make up your body are until you take a look at the sheer number of them. An adult is made up of around 7,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 (7 octillion) atoms."
This does mean that the following is also true:
The other part of the article that definately makes you feel a little strange when you contemplate the implications was this .....that the atoms that make up our bodies are mostly empty space, so despite there being so many of them, without that space we would compress into a tiny volume. The nucleus that makes up the vast bulk of the matter in an atom is so much smaller than the whole structure that it is comparable to the size of a fly in a cathedral. If we lost all our empty atomic space, our bodies would fit into a cube less than 1/500th of a centimetre on each side.
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