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What is Fundamental? The Atom
Today we know that there is something more fundamental than earth, water, air, and fire...
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By convention there is color,
By convention sweetness,
By convention bitterness,
But in reality there are atoms and space.
-Democritus (c. 400 BCE)
Around 1900, people thought of atoms as
permeable balls with bits of electric charge bouncing around inside.
But is the atom fundamental?
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