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THE FIRST THOUGHT EXPERIMENT: IS THERE A PRIMORDIAL BUILDING BLOCK?
WHAT IS LIGHT?
THERE ARE ATOMS AFTER ALL
ATOMS ELEMENTS COMPOUNDS
WHAT IS THIS ATTRACTIVE FORCE?
BEAUTIFUL LIGHTS. FORCES OF ATTRACTION AND REPULSION. MYSTERIOUS RAYS
A FIRST LOOK INSIDE THE ATOM…X RAYS
A FURTHER LOOK INSIDE THE ATOM …RADIOACTIVITY
BACK TO LIGHT
THE UNIVERSE IN MOTION
THE SPECTRUM: AN INDIRECT PEEK INSIDE THE ATOM
ANOTHER PEEK INSIDE THE ATOM---THE ELECTRON---WHAT DOES AN ATOM LOOK LIKE?
A BETTER VIEW OF THE ATOM
OPEN THE DOOR TO A NEW PHYSICS
A NEW ATOM. THE START OF QUANTUM MECHANICS
A NEW GRAVITY
BACK TO THE ATOM
PARTICLE AND WAVE
IT’S FUZZY DOWN THERE
THE NUCLEAR AGE: PROMISE OR DISASTER?
END GAME
BIBLIOGRAPHY. Asimov, Isaac, Atom. Journey Across The Subatomic Cosmos, Plume, New York, 1992
Bentinck, Henry, Anyone Can Understand the Atom, Max Parrish, London, 1965
Hall, Walter Phelps, and Davis, William Stearns, The Course Of Europe Since Waterloo, Appleton Century-Crofts, Inc., New York, 1951. Heisenberg, Werner, Physics And Philosophy, Prometheus Books, Amherst, New York, 1999
As soon as man developed the capability to contemplate who he was in relation to the world about him, he began to wonder if there was a singleness about all objects in his environment. Certainly the differences were visually vast, but could there be a common indivisible building block for all things animate and inanimate?
For instance: if you were able to cut a gold bar in half, and then cut the half piece in half, and then cut the quarter piece in half, and then the eighth, and then the sixteenth, etcetera, when do you have to stop? Is there a point when you would end up with a fragment that could no longer be broken down into a smaller piece (the smallest possible piece still identifiable as gold)? The Greeks named this infinitesimally tiny end piece atomos (atom) or ‘unbreakable’ in Greek.
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Heraclitus was considered the most influential Greek philosopher before Socrates. What this deep thinking did to his mind is open to conjecture, however, for he was said to have retreated into the forest where he lived on plants, and tried to cure the dropsy which he developed by covering himself with manure. It didn’t work.
The problem for the ancient Greek philosophers was the difficulty in attempting to develop a theory of a single entity evolving into the great variety of objects in the world.
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