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God and the Atom (Hardcover, New)
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God and the Atom (Hardcover, New)
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Loot Price R597
Discovery Miles 5 970
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This history of atomism, from Democritus to the recent discovery of
the Higgs boson, chronicles one of the most successful scientific
hypotheses ever devised.Originating separately in both ancient
Greece and India, the concept of the atom persisted for centuries,
despite often running afoul of conventional thinking. Until the
twentieth century, no direct evidence for atoms existed. Today it
is possible to actually observe atoms using a scanning tunneling
microscope. In this book, physicist Victor J. Stenger makes the
case that, in the final analysis, atoms and the void are all that
exists. The book begins with the story of the earliest atomists -
the ancient Greek philosophers Leucippus, Democritus, and Epicurus,
and the Latin poet Lucretius. As the author notes, the idea of
elementary particles as the foundation of reality had many
opponents throughout history - from Aristotle to Christian
theologians and even some nineteenth-century chemists and
philosophers. While theists today accept that the evidence for the
atomic theory of matter is overwhelming, they reject the atheistic
implications of that theory. In conclusion, the author underscores
the main point made throughout this work: the total absence of
empirical facts and theoretical arguments to support the existence
of any component to reality other than atoms and the void can be
taken as proof beyond a reasonable doubt that such a component is
nowhere to be found.
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