Friday, January 4, 2013

Atoms and Smaller: Cosmos

Cosmos
Author: Carl Sagan 

Another interesting clip from the classic book from Carl Sagan: 

Democritus invented the word atom, Greek for “unable to be cut.” Atoms were the ultimate particles, forever frustrating our attempts to break them into smaller pieces. Everything, he said, is a collection of atoms, intricately assembled. Even we. “Nothing exists,” he said, “but atoms and the void.”

Marinate on that for a second.

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