Are Atoms Concentrations of Energy?

[mtanti]

Are atoms, or their sub particles, just concentrations of energy which do not disperse?

This energy pushes other like energies away and thus creates a solid feeling?

 

[Danger]

You're on the right track, but it's a lot more complicated than that. I'm going to leave this one for the experts.

 

[Chronos]

Atoms and their constituent particles play quantum roulette. They suffer from particle - wave duality. It's a wave function collapse thing.

 

[Claude Bile]

Are atoms, or their sub particles, just concentrations of energy which do not disperse?

Yes, that would be a fair description, although it should be pointed out that the properties of particles go beyond merely how much energy they comprise. Other quantities like charge and so forth are necessary to obtain a complete desrciption of the particle.

This energy pushes other like energies away and thus creates a solid feeling?

Matter 'feels' solid (at least on the macroscopic scale) because of various forms of electrostatic repulsion (like charge's repelling one another).

Claude.

 

[Farsight]

Are atoms, or their sub particles, just concentrations of energy which do not disperse?

This energy pushes other like energies away and thus creates a solid feeling?

Mtanti, energy is not something from which things are made. It is a property that things have. It's rather like colour. You perceive a thing to be red because "red" is a property of the thing. But things aren't just concentrations of red, and nor are they just concentrations of energy.

As to what these things actually are, I don't know. Some say they are topological entities. It might be better if you picked a particular particle and asked what it is.