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Thank you.

Does that imply that an atom is not bound by a "shape" or "closed" surface and is in a way "open" for sharing its contents with other atoms?

What is the probability of an electron being found outside the atom it belongs to? Is it zero or nonzero?

Thanks for the explanation. It could be that, I am being misled too much by my classical "common sense" notion. But, I picture decay as some sort of a change. And I also think that whenever some "composite" stuff changes into another "composite" stuff, it is actually the "composition" that is...

I think both proton and neutron are 'composite' particles made of quarks. But what about the decay of quarks? They are supposed to be 'elementary'.

Thanks to all. I still want to know this: - If a particle decays into other particles, does it not in a way suggest, that it could be a composite particle rather than an elementary particle?

What causes an elementary particle to "decay" into other elementary particles? And where do these particles come from if they were not part of the original particle?

I'll try to reword that. What I am saying is - the product of Planck's constant, Einstein's proportionality constant and Planck time is equal to the "surface" volume of a 3-sphere having the radius of 2 Planck lengths. I am sorry I could not understand this part.

Is the product of the Planck's constant, Einstein's proportionality constant and Planck time also equal to this volume (i.e. where r=2 Planck lengths)? Does this equivalence signify anything? What does it signify?

What is the surface area ("surface volume") of a 3-sphere having a radius of 2 Planck lengths? Is the product of the Planck's constant, Einstein's proportionality constant and Planck time also equal to this volume? Does this equivalence signify anything? What does it signify?

It is 0.000000000000000000000000000000000016 m

Yes. And that implies that the force would become infinite at plank length! Which perhaps has no observational evidence.

But the "mainstream" is incomplete, and therefore leaves gaps that have to be filled by some or other hypothesis. The assumption that gravity acts at Planck length is still an assumption. And all assumptions tend to limit our imagination. The "obviousness" of objects falling down, the idea of...

Plank length is the shortest meaningful distance and therefore it IS special.

But how can we say that so confidently about something we haven't been able to measure as yet.