Brian Cox and Simon Pegg explain why atoms have so much empty space

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If you ’re a lover of crystalline explanations of tricky scientific concepts , it ’s knockout to go awry with theoretic physicist Brian Cox . But when you merge in physicist Jim Al - Khalili and Simon Pegg , you ’ve got yourself a formula for pedagogical gold . Also : thinly veiled gender jokes .

In this clip from BBC’sA Night With the Stars , Cox recruits Pegg and Al - Khalili to demonstrate the principle of a place upright wave in a quantum mechanical circumstance , what this rule can tell us about the discrete nature of nuclear vim stage , and why electron — belittled as they are — command so much space , when bound to the nucleus of an corpuscle . [ BBCHeadlineNews ]