Mystifact | The More You Know #3 - The Human Race in a Sugar Cube?
If we clumped together all the constituents of every single human, it would fit in a sugar cube - but how?
Humans are made of organ systems - organ systems are made of organs - organs are made of cells - cells are made of molecules - molecules are made of elements - elements are made of atoms.
Atoms also have constituents. Each atom is comprised of:
- A nucleus which contains a number of protons and neutrons
- Electrons "orbiting" this nucleus
- Empty space
- Empty space
- Empty space
In fact, there is so much empty space in an atom, that 99.9999999999999% of it is complete empty space. To put this into perspective; if the atom was the Earth - its nucleus would be the size of a football stadium. Fascinating stuff.
Now if we removed all of this empty space, and clumped up the constituents of every single human's atoms; it would fit in a sugar cube.
Just when you thought it doesn't get much crazier than that - the weight of this sugar cube would result to 5 billion tonnes. That is roughly 10 times the weight of the human race combined!
Don't forget to check out the rest of the series if you haven't and until next time, take care.
~ Mystifact
Previous 'The More You Know' posts:
The More You Know #1 - How to lose weight if you are 100% desperate
The More You Know #2 - Bees have spidey senses!
First thing that comes to mind with this is LSD in that sugar cube!
Hahaha, Indeed. Trippy stuff
How do you get 10x the weight of the human race by removing empty space?
Great question. It's to do with the binding energy. If you add up the weight of 5 separate neutrons then weigh 5 neutrons bound together - the clump of neutrons would weigh more.