You still don't seem to realize that when you said this:
Agobot in Message 100 writes:
ust wanted to add something cavediver didn't mention - matter is 99.9999% empty space and the other 0.0001% is... virtual.
That this is not anywhere close to what the article said. The article definitely does not say that 0.0001% of the atom is virtual. It says that the entire nucleus of the atom is virtual. It says it in the title:
It's confirmed: Matter is merely vacuum fluctuations
And it says it again in the opening paragraph:
Matter is built on flaky foundations. Physicists have now confirmed that the apparently substantial stuff is actually no more than fluctuations in the quantum vacuum.
Do you get it now? The article did not say that 0.0001% of the atom is virtual. It said that the entire nucleus (the majority of the mass of an atom) is virtual.
Just as theory predicts.
Electrons are theorized to be virtual, too, but this experimental work didn't focus on elections.
--Percy