Matter is more “nothing” (energy) than “something” (particles). The old school belief was that electrons orbited around the nucleus like planets around the sun.
But the new school tells us that an atom is composed 99.99999% by energy and just .00001% percent by matter. If we look at this proportionally, it’s almost nothing.
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