Hi, It's really very educative, I must admit ;o) Let's repeat the basics For the starters Doug wrote: >It's not air. Air is molecules and atoms made up of the same beasties >(electrons, protons, and neutrons) as the filters that started this >discussion. It may well be nothing. It may well be something. What ever it >is, it doesn't make a good subject for a photograph. > >Doug Stanley And as if it's not enough, Brian added: >Mater is made up of energy, ALL mater, that includes air. Inbetween the >electron cloud and the atomic center is void, nothing. Now there are of >course other types of sub-atomic particles like neutrinos, but there is no >"mater" like air between them. Air is mater, made up of these tiny atomic >structures. THANKS, guys! I must tell You the truth -- I've studied some preliminary physics myself. The (tongueincheek) question has its origin in the army, where a dumb officer taught the university graduates (students of physics, as a matter of fact) elementary atomic structure. The lecture was about nuclear weapons. Just imagine...! He was busy telling how those bigger beasties sit in the center and the smaller beasties keep to their trajectories, as one student asked what's there inbetween. The officer thought for a moment and bursted: "Air, of course! What else there could be, you moron!" But I really like that question and the context of the discussion was just reaching the point... Peeter (NOT from the tongueincheek studios, alas!)
