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Who Split the Atom? by By Susan K. Lewis Posted 06.01.08 NOVA scienceNOW
The morning after physicist Ernest Rutherford discovered that atoms were mostly empty space, he was afraid to get out of bed for fear he'd fall through the floorboards. He got over it, says Neil deGrasse Tyson in this audio piece—as has Neil with his beef over how we typically ignore all that space when we depict atoms.
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