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“The modern atom is not the one that Democritus imagined. It only owes its name to Democritus but does not represent the smallest particle. Democritus had precisely the smallest particle in mind—a quark, string, or something smaller up to the “zero” point of Everything. Science needs to understand the smallest uncuttable (indivisible) particle.” — Dejan Stojanovic
The modern atom is not the one that Democritus imagined. It only owes its name to Democritus but does not represent the smallest particle. Democritus had precisely the smallest particle in mind—a quark, string, or something smaller up to the “zero” point of Everything. Science needs to understand the smallest uncuttable (indivisible) particle.