Every story and comment from the Hacker News API, in a layout borrowed from 2001.
A comment on Pi explained. Parent comment
And especially when you attach atoms together the spacing between them varies depending on the strength and type of the bond.
Additionally, molecules are constantly in motion (heat) - one of the motions is changing the size of the spacing between them.
But even if you froze it to absolute zero (which is impossible), it doesn't matter, the size is not determinate, it's only probabilistic.
So a real physical object can never have a fixed size.
There are no comments on this comment yet.
And especially when you attach atoms together the spacing between them varies depending on the strength and type of the bond.
Additionally, molecules are constantly in motion (heat) - one of the motions is changing the size of the spacing between them.
But even if you froze it to absolute zero (which is impossible), it doesn't matter, the size is not determinate, it's only probabilistic.
So a real physical object can never have a fixed size.