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etc. - are solid and stable and our body too is a solid framework made up of bones, flesh and blood. All these things that we perceive as solid and unchanging are according to physical science itself, only unstable conglomerations of atomic and subatomic particles spinning around at extremely high speeds. The true picture of our physical body also, according to science, is quite different from our day-to-day perception of it. The anatomists tell us that the constituents of our body-bones, flesh, blood etc. - are made up of cells. It is estimated that an adult human body is composed of about fifty trillion cells, of which about fifty million perish every second and get replaced by equal number of new ones. These cells that change at such fast rate are all, in turn, made up of atoms and subatomic particles.
Scientists state that even the atoms of things we consider as solids are not tightly packed, but stay in place because of mutually interacting force-fields of these atoms. When we touch a book, atoms of our hand and those of the book do not come in contact at all in actual fact; it is only the force-fields of the atoms of our hand that interact with those of the book.
Scientists studying the atomic structure have found that in the nucleus of an atom, the electrons spin around the proton. Every atom is a miniature solar system wherein the distance between electrons and the proton is as much as that between the sun and earth relative to their size. On further exploration of the atomic nucleus, it is found that even the nucleus is not a solid/indivisible entity but consists of smaller particles of nuclear matter. This means that there is lot of empty space entrapped in the structure of an atom, the inevitable inference being that all things of our day-to-day contact - this chair, table, house, land and our body too, as much as 99.9% parts, consist of empty space only. Atomic scientists of today unanimously state, 'lf our eyes could see the atoms that make
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