"We are all phantoms."

"And you thought there was a lot of empty space in the solar system.
Well, there's even more nothing inside an atom.
A hydrogen atom is only about a ten millionth of a millimeter in diameter, but the proton in the middle is a hundred thousand times smaller, and the electron whizzing around the outside is a thousand times smaller than THAT. The rest of the atom is empty.
I tried to picture it, and I couldn't. So I put together this page - and I still can't picture it."

This is a site that shows you the contents of an atom in the form of a proton and an electron.
It is made especially to show the distance between the proton and the electron.

He takes the size of an electron as one pixel and builds the proton (and the distance between the two) at the correct ratio (1000x1000 pixels). The distance between the two components adds up to about eleven miles, "making this possibly the biggest page you've ever seen (I personally have seen one that was set up to be even bigger, though its exact size did not seem to represent anything specific).".

"I recommend trying to scroll from here to the right a screen at a time, just to see how long it takes the little thumb in the scrollbar to move visibly. True masochists can try to scroll through the whole eleven miles - but the scenery along the way is pretty bleak." - try it, it goes to show that very much space is, well, wasted.

"I used to think that things like rocks and buildings and my own skeleton were fairly solid. But they're made up of atoms, and atoms, as you can see here, contain so little actual material that they can barely be said to exist.

We are all phantoms."