Richard P. Feynman

It has been discovered that all the world is made of the same atoms, that the stars are of the same stuff as ourselves. It then becomes a question of where our stuff came from. Not just where did life come from, or where did the earth come from, but where did the stuff of life and of the earth come from?

American Physicist

Mitch Kapor

In an economy where more and more value is in information - is in the bits, not the atoms, where bits can be copied essentially for free - any time you have that situation, economic schemes that rely on existing models of intellectual property laws for protection are going to do less and less well.

American Businessman

Gerard De Nerval

It has been rightly said that nothing is unimportant, nothing powerless in the universe; a single atom can dissolve everything, and save everything! What terror! There lies the eternal distinction between good and evil.

French Novelist

Willard Libby

We hope that this honor you have done us will bring the time of further realization of these benefits closer and will help all mankind to live better and be happier through the atom and isotopes.

American Scientist

Annalee Newitz

Evolution, climate change, and the construction of the physical universe down to its atoms are processes that we measure in millions or billions of years.

American Journalist

Tim Crouch

As actors, we do our best to keep things light and to encourage in the audience an openness to the changing atoms in the room.

Director

James Jeans

Life exists in the universe only because the carbon atom possesses certain exceptional properties.

English Physicist

Diana Vreeland

The bikini is the most important thing since the atom bomb.

American Editor

Kyle Hill

Human atoms are the notes, their life the symphony.

American Author

Muriel Rukeyser

The universe is made of stories, not of atoms.

American Poet

Atoms bond together to form molecules, which make up matter.

Chemical Composition

Historically, atoms were thought to be indivisible; now we know they consist of smaller particles.

Indivisible Concept

Every element on the periodic table is defined by the number of protons in its atoms.

Unique Identity

The word 'atom' is often used to emphasize the smallness or insignificance of something.

Figurative Use

Using 'atom' can be a rhetorical device to exaggerate the lack of something.

Exaggeration Device

Atom in computing often relates to web feeds or updates. It's not just static data.

Technology Updates

Atom feeds are used to publish content to a wider audience across the Internet.

Content Syndication

 So you ask, just how small are atoms? To understand this, let's ask this How many atoms are in a grapefruit? Well, let's assume that the grapefruit is made up of only nitrogen atoms, which isn't at all true, but there are nitrogen atoms in a grapefruit. To help you visualize this, let's blow up each of the atoms

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 is intimately connected to those distant, invisible galaxies. We can think of them as part of our universe. They make up a single, giant edifice obeying the same physical laws and all made from the same types of atoms, electrons, protons, quarks, neutrinos, that make up you and me.

Questions No One Knows...

 in the three minutes that followed the birth of our universe. Eventually, clusters of atoms accumulated and formed stars. Within these stars, nuclear reactions fused light elements, such as hydrogen and helium, to form heavier elements, such as carbon and oxygen.

The law of conservation...

 are hydrogen and oxygen atoms, and that's what water is. Of course we don't. We understand, very easily, very straightforwardly, that water is nothing more than the hydrogen and oxygen molecules suitably arranged. Everything else in the universe is the same.

Julian Baggini: Is there...

 ultimately depends on the basic laws of physics it depends on the size of molecules which depends on the size of atoms which depends on fundamental properties of the universe like the strength of the force of electromagnetism and the mass of an

What is the Smallest...

 that create gold in stars. But these machines can only construct gold atom by atom. So it would take almost the age of the universe to produce one gram at a cost vastly exceeding the current value of gold. So that's not a very good solution.

Where does gold come...

 The universe is bustling with matter and energy. Even in the vast apparent emptiness of intergalactic space, there's one hydrogen atom per cubic meter. That's not the mention a barrage of particles

Is it possible to create...

 forever the challenges is making fusion work at the National Ignition facility what we're trying to do is overcome a natural barrier that nature has set up for atoms to fuse together

Harnessing the Power of...

 But look deep into the atomic structure of any of them, and you'll see a world in constant flux. Stretching, contracting, springing, jittering, drifting atoms everywhere.

The invisible motion of...

 combinations than atoms in the universe just was and still is after today in male-dominated sport was it realistic from my parents to think that I can

Atom

The smallest unit of a chemical element that still keeps its properties.

An extremely small amount of something.

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In computing, it refers to a basic unit of data with metadata, commonly in web feeds.

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Chemical Composition

Indivisible Concept

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