Mediation on Space and Quantum Physics

So this week I've embarked on a short teacher training module with Shiva Rea (awesomely fabulous yoga teacher) and one of the topics today was Space.  Yoga teachers are always telling their students to "make space" and one of my friends and fellow trainees asked the question

How do you create space when there is none? 
(for example, crowded yoga studio, busy train/metro, etc.)


I'm thinking it's already there....

Why do I think this?  Let me tell you!!

A rough (but decent estimate for our purposes) estimate of the size of an entire atom is about 0.00000000001 (10^{-11})  meters.  That's 1/100,000,000 (one hundred millionTH) of a millimeter!  In other words, divide a millimeter in to 100 million pieces...
WHOA BABY that's tiny!!!

BUT, guess what?  The size of a proton is even smaller!

(Protons and neutrons make up the nuclei of atoms; electrons whiz around on the outside.   BUT electrons are even smaller than protons and neutrons.  So when we talk about atomic sizes we think of where the electrons "orbit" but when we talk about the actual amount of space the matter inside an atom takes up, the electrons are so small that they don't really count.)

How small is a proton you ask?  (I'll tell you this too!)
Ok Ready?
A proton is 0.000000000000001 (10^{-15})  meters  which is (GET THIS) one TRILLIONTH of a millimeter! You can't even see that in the best microscopes that are out there right now!

So, here's the kicker:   If you put those numbers together, recognizing that the space inside atoms that isn't occupied by protons or neutrons is pretty much empty, you figure out that ATOMS ARE SOMEWHERE BETWEEN 99.9% AND 99.99% EMPTY SPACE!!!!! 

Since we are made of atoms we must also be mostly empty space!

So, when your yoga teacher tells you to "create space," don't worry because it's already there.  All you have to do is tap into it.

Meditate on that and see what happens!