“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 StojanovicAbsoluteAtomDemocritusParticles Of MatterModern Atom Book:ABSOLUTE Source: ABSOLUTE
“Why does Alexander the Great never tell us about the exact location of his tomb, Fermat about his Last Theorem, John Wilkes Booth about the Lincoln assassination conspiracy, Hermann Göring about the Reichstag fire? Why don’t Sophocles, Democritus, and Aristarchus dictate their lost books?” EvidenceSkepticismPseudoscienceSophoclesAlexander The GreatJohn Wilkes BoothDemocritusFermat S Last TheoremAristarchusChannelersHermann GöringReichstag Fire Book:The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark Source: The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark
“The void is 'not-being,' and no part of 'what is' is a 'not-being,'; for what 'is' in the strict sense of the term is an absolute plenum. This plenum, however, is not 'one': on the contrary, it is a 'many' infinite in number and invisible owing to the minuteness of their bulk.” ScienceAtomsScientistsAristotleAtomicAtomDemocritusAtomic ScienceScience Scientists Author:Aristotle
“Greek atomists Leucippus, his pupil Democritus, and other metaphysicians knew that the world was not how people saw and perceived it. If they understood atoms even then, the indivisible particles, not modern new atoms, we must believe that they understood much more. If they knew that every sense and sensation is a convention, they could have understood that space and time are conventions, too. Regardless of not thoroughly understanding or elaborating on these concepts, they understood that the world must be something different from what is experienced by the senses or how the senses understand it. If Everything is by a convention of senses, then senses can represent things differently; that is why the eye watches, not the ear. If Everything is a convention, then Everything we experience by senses must be relative.” SciencePhysicsAtomsDejan StojanovicAbsoluteParticlesDemocritusPhislophyLeucippus Book:ABSOLUTE Source: ABSOLUTE
“Maybe Democritus did not understand that matter, as a convention or the world of atoms that makes the whole Universe, including our brain, which “rules” the senses and cognition, is the same convention. However, an atom is a convention. The World is a Convention of the Absolute. The conventions must be relative; only the Absolute is unconventional, but only by and through conventions are the world and life possible.” PhilosophyScienceUniversePhysicsAtomsConventionsDejan StojanovicAbsoluteDemocritus Book:ABSOLUTE Source: ABSOLUTE