Isnt it true that relatively speaking the distance between 2 atoms is the same as the distance between our?

Question

star and the next? Again I stress relativity.

Answer 1

A closer analogy would be a 5-mile-wide asteroid orbiting the sun beyond Neptune.

Answer 2

No. Since distance between 2 atoms in a gas can be decreased with pressure ie more atoms per cm3 as volume decrease. The velocity of the atom does not change therefore your statement is not true

Answer 3

Not at all. To use hydrogen as an example, the distance of the electron cloud frpm the nucleus is about 10,000 times the size of the proton that forms the nucleus.

Hydrogen bonds with many other atoms (or we wouldn't be here), and chemical bonds are formed when atoms share electrons in their outer shells. So the distance between the nuclei of adjacent atoms is on the order of 20,000 times the diameter of their nuclei.

Our sun has a diameter of about 865,000 miles and its nearest neighbor, Proxima Centauri, is 4.3 light years away. 4.3 light years is 25 trillion miles, about 29 million times the diameter of the sun. This means that stars in our part of the galaxy are roughly 1,000 times farther apart than the nuclei of adjacent atoms.

EDIT: One source claims that nuclei are more like 100,000 times smaller than atoms. If this is true stars are still 100 times farther apart than atomic nuclei. In the case of the densely-packed stars in globular clusters, however, their relative distances may be comparable to atomic nuclei after all - but only within these clusters.

The person who used the molecules in a gas was making an unfair comparison, as these molecules are not chemically bound to each other and can be literally *miles* apart!

Answer 4

Simply put No. and you could google why...