What Really Happens When Atoms Collide: RST vs. the Old Story

The video “This Is What It Looks Like When Atoms Collide” shows a simulation of alpha particles slamming into gold atoms—recreating the famous 1909 Rutherford experiment. In the standard view, this proved two big things:
Most of the atom is empty space.
The mass is packed into a tiny, dense nucleus.
But under the Reactive Substrate Theory (RST), we get a very different picture. The experiment still works—but the interpretation changes completely. Instead of particles flying through a vacuum and bouncing off each other like billiard balls, RST sees it as solitons interacting inside a continuous field.
1. There’s No “Empty Space” in RST
In the old view, alpha particles fly through empty space between electrons and the nucleus.
In RST, there is no true vacuum. What looks like “empty space” is actually the Substrate field (S) at rest. It’s a continuous, invisible medium that fills everything. The alpha particle is a moving soliton—a stable knot of tension in the Substrate. It glides through the field with almost no resistance unless it hits another soliton.
So when most alpha particles pass through the gold foil, it’s not because there’s “nothing” there—it’s because they’re moving through undisturbed Substrate.
2. The Nucleus Is a Tension Knot
In the standard model, the nucleus is a dense clump of mass and charge.
In RST, the nucleus is a highly stable soliton—a tightly wound knot of Substrate tension. It’s not a “thing” sitting in space—it is a geometric configuration of the field itself. That’s why it’s so dense and hard to penetrate. It’s not just heavy—it’s geometrically locked.
3. Bounceback = Soliton-Soliton Collision
When an alpha particle hits the nucleus head-on and bounces back, the standard view says it’s a rare, high-energy impact.
In RST, this is a collision between two solitons—two dense knots of tension in the Substrate. When they meet, their stress fields interact. If the incoming soliton hits the nucleus directly, the Substrate tension redirects it sharply—like two tightly wound springs snapping off each other.
This isn’t a “bounce” in empty space. It’s a geometric re-routing of momentum through the field.
– The atom isn’t mostly empty—it’s mostly Substrate at rest. – The nucleus isn’t a clump of mass—it’s a stable soliton of tension. – Collisions aren’t impacts—they’re stress reconfigurations in a continuous field.
RST doesn’t change the experiment—it changes the story. What we thought were particles in a vacuum are really tension knots in a living field. The universe isn’t made of stuff—it’s made of stress.

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