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Einstein
Proves Atoms Do Exista
World
Without Einstein Series
For
2500 years scientists argued about whether or not atoms really did
exist. Finally, an unknown patent clerk provided definitive proof—his
name was Albert Einstein.
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Image #1
If
we had a powerful microscope and looked deeply inside a wire, would it
look just like wire, smooth and continuous, or would we see it was made
of small discrete parts linked together? Democritus called these parts
"atomos", Greek for uncuttable.
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Image #2
Botanist Robert Brown saw pollen grains
continually jittering for no apparent reason—it was a mystery for 80
years.
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Image #3
Einstein solved the
mystery, showing the motion was caused by unseen atoms, and he derived
the diffusion equation that allowed the mass and size of atoms to be
measured for the first time.
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Image #4
Now we can image individual atoms. The blue dots
are xenon atoms imaged by an atomic force microscope by a famous
corporation.
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