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Published on Apr 16, 2012

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Just how small are atoms? And what's inside them? The answers turn out to be astounding, even for those who think they know. This fast-paced animation uses spectacular metaphors (imagine a blueberry the size of a football stadium!) to give a visceral sense of the building blocks that make our world.

Lesson by Jonathan Bergmann, animation by Cognitive Media.

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  • So Fat

    1.stop download

    2.thats yo peepee! xD

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  • Enoa7

    you forgot there are quarks inside the atoms lol

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  • Diego JM

    I'm a kid 8 years and I like it

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  • Diego JM

    Cool Ted your the interesting guy in the world you know everything

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  • Max Tube

    4:20 Number of people *in* the earth....

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  • iAmTheTrueSpaceman

    /watch?v=1OLz6uUuMp8 here's a video about "nothing". It's REALLY nice.

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  • triton62674

    He wasn`t trying hard... He was just explaining further.

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  • Braden H

    that wasnt part of the lesson..... you can be smart without trying so hard, you know

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  • downfall1996

    Has that been proven? I thought string theory was just that, still a theory..

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  • JamesHazBeHaiTyme

    And that the quarks are made of even smaller strings ^^

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  • PROlinex

    after all that i still dont know how big an atom is, could have just given a measurement

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  • Joolsthejools

    I haven't heard of atoms, I'm from Texas

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