Figure 1C. This is the most realistic model of any atom. It is “no thing”
materially, but all things potentially.Another Puzzle: Subatomic Particles and
Larger Objects Play by Different Rules
But this alone wasn’t enough to explain the nature of reality. Einstein and
others had another puzzle to solve—matter didn’t always seem to behave in
the same ways. When physicists began observing and measuring the tiny
world of the atom, they noticed that at the subatomic level the fundamental
elements of the atom didn’t obey the laws of classical physics the way that
larger objects did.
Events involving objects in the “large” world were predictable,
reproducible, and consistent. When that legendary apple fell from a tree and
moved toward the center of the earth until it collided with Newton’s head,