Perfidiously Pervious Particles

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Niels Bohr

'Old particles'
The idea that the world is made up of 'stuff' in the form of lots of small particles is old. Ancient greek philosophers, notably Democritus who first conceived of the idea of 'atoms', devoted considerable energy contemplating this question. During the rise of early-modern science, under the influence of Descartes and Newton in the sixteenth century, particle theories of natural phenomena became all the more en vogue.  more...