what do writing, atoms, and playing Jenga have all in common

Ever read a book and then felt that you could squeeze those several hundred pages into one or a few core concepts that would fit on one page? Admittedly, there is a lot of beating around the bush happening in the realm of non-fiction writing. Core concepts are wrapped in layers upon layers of mush. Curiously, this seems to pretty much reflect the structure and dynamics of an atom. It has a lot of “empty space” that is actually not empty (typical quantum mechanics quagmire, right?). To simplify, it is a soup of plenty of things and interactions that average out to zero.