Does the p-adic rationals have isolated points?

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Does $\mathbb Q_p$ have isolated points? I think that it doesn't,but i cannot prove it. Any help?Thank you!

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Topologically, the $p$-adic integers, $\mathbb{Z}_p$ are all paths through a tree which splits $p$ times at every node, it is like a Cantor set, but based on $p$. So it is a perfect set with no isolated point. The $p$ adic rationals $\mathbb{Q}_p$ is a union of countabily many such trees, and so there will not be any isolated rationals either.