moronfromboronI’m a Scientist is like school science lessons meet the X Factor! School students choose which scientist gets a prize of $1000 to communicate their work.
Scientists and students talk on this website. They both break down barriers, have fun and learn. But only the students get to vote.
This zone is the Boron Zone. It has a range of scientists studying all different topics. Who gets the prize? YOU decide!
That is a tough question to answer! Perhaps the best description is “sticky” – atoms and molecules tend to stick to any surface that they come across. I guess it is very different to the everyday world, because the atomic world is ruled by the laws of quantum physics – which are quite different to the “classial physics” that we are used to in our everyday lives.
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I always imagined it as being filled with lots of space, rather than sticky? With the odd electron whizzing around and a clumped nucleus in the centre. I guess this is an image from classic physics? Thanks Matthew.
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good question :0
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Good question – I’m glad a quantum physicist is on hand to answer it! I always imagined it being “sticky” too, based on my university physics classes.
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