The infamous Thomson "plum pudding" atomic model, now with 99.9999% empty space! This textbook diagram shows the positive sphere and electron with such dramatic scaling that you'd need an electron microscope just to find them. Imagine the student's confusion: "Is this a diagram or just a blank page with arrows pointing at dust?" The real joke is that Thomson's model was already obsolete by 1911 when Rutherford proved atoms weren't solid spheres—yet textbooks still manage to make them even emptier than reality. Scale in physics: where sometimes the most important things are the hardest to see!
The Invisible Atomic Model
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