Archimedes Plutonium<
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Mar 11, 2023, 8:10:10 PM (15 hours ago)
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Alright I need to include Feynman's modern statement of the Ancient Greek Atomic theory. I am quoting from my historic 8th edition of Atom Totality.
So the Atomic Theory is special in the history of science.
So what is the Atomic Theory of Democritus and what is it today?
Democritus said words to the effect: "The only things that exist are
atoms and the void".
Now I ask you. None of us dispute that whenever we point to a material
object we know it is composed of atoms. When we point to mass and
matter we know it is composed of atoms. Even the gases and air we
breathe on Earth are made of atoms.
And what is the modern day Atomic Theory, and here I point to the statement of Feynman:
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The Feynman Lectures on Physics, 1963
page 1-2
If, in some cataclysm, all of scientific knowledge were to be destroyed, and only one sentence passed on to the next generations of creatures, what statement would contain the most information in the fewest words? I believe it is the Atomic hypothesis (
or the atomic fact, or whatever you wish to call it) that All things are made up of atoms-- little particles that move around in perpetual motion, attracting each other when they are a little distance apart, but repelling upon being squeezed into one
another.
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So we have no trouble with either Democritus or Feynman in understanding the Atomic theory. But there is trouble, and the trouble comes when we ask what about the Universe itself as a entity, a structure. Is it a non-entity and structureless. Or, is it a
atom, a single atom which would complete the Logic. Which would push the Atomic theory of Democritus and as the Feynman statement, push the Atomic Theory to