The pre-Socratic philosophers Leucippus and Democritus are credited with the first theories of atoms. They basically said that all matter is composed of atoms, or constituent parts that cannot be further divided into smaller parts. Leucippus and Democritus, remember, were Greek, and the word atom derives from the prefix a- (meaning “not”) and the word tomos (meaningContinueContinue reading “A Few Words On Atomism”
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Neighbor Claims Flat Earth, Part 2
A little while ago, I wrote about a neighbor of mine who is certain that planet Earth is flat. In that article, I forgot to mention that he added, almost as an afterthought, that Neil deGrasse Tyson claims that Earth is pear-shaped. I found this to be an odd statement, and I treated it withContinueContinue reading “Neighbor Claims Flat Earth, Part 2”
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