Int 1 Task 1
The Smallest Particle?
The Atom. Adapted from “Newton Typepad“ website, 2008, http://newton.typepad.com/content/2008/07/atom-powered-co.html
As far back, from my school years, as I can remember the word atom signified the smallest particle of matter. This is a very layman like attitude a scientist would abhor, because a scientist knows that this concept of ‘the smallest particle of matter ' has been changing rapidly over the years. The Greeks, it is said, coined the word “atom”. When this concept was articulated by the Greeks, there were no electronic equipments or high-tech labs to verify and further explore this “atom”. Technological advances have given today’s physicists the needed methods and means to explore matter in ways never possible in the early days of the atom.
John Dalton(1766-1844): Father of the Modern Atomic Theory
John Dalton theorized that(John Dalton. (2013). The Biography
Channel website. Retrieved Jun 05, 2013, from http://www.biography.com/people/john-dalton-9265201.):
John Dalton, Adapted from “Biography.com” website, http://www.biography.com/pe ople/john-dalton-9265201
•Elements are distinguishable by the weight of their atoms • Atoms cannot be created or destroyed • Atoms fuse together to form compounds • Atoms of the same element are identical in every way. • Atom is the smallest particle.
The most basic description that is universally understood, would be, that matter is made of atoms. Now in today’s “enlightened” world, this would be too simple of a statement to make categorically. It becomes necessary for us to take into account the advances in atom science and be able to qualify our statement. We must further state, that though matter is made up of atoms, they are no longer the smallest particles of matter. Let us begin a journey through time to be able to appreciate our understanding, of how the concept of the “smallest particle of matter” has changed over time. The first modern day proponents of the atomic theory
The Atom. Adapted from “Newton Typepad“ website, 2008, http://newton.typepad.com/content/2008/07/atom-powered-co.html
As far back, from my school years, as I can remember the word atom signified the smallest particle of matter. This is a very layman like attitude a scientist would abhor, because a scientist knows that this concept of ‘the smallest particle of matter ' has been changing rapidly over the years. The Greeks, it is said, coined the word “atom”. When this concept was articulated by the Greeks, there were no electronic equipments or high-tech labs to verify and further explore this “atom”. Technological advances have given today’s physicists the needed methods and means to explore matter in ways never possible in the early days of the atom.
John Dalton(1766-1844): Father of the Modern Atomic Theory
John Dalton theorized that(John Dalton. (2013). The Biography
Channel website. Retrieved Jun 05, 2013, from http://www.biography.com/people/john-dalton-9265201.):
John Dalton, Adapted from “Biography.com” website, http://www.biography.com/pe ople/john-dalton-9265201
•Elements are distinguishable by the weight of their atoms • Atoms cannot be created or destroyed • Atoms fuse together to form compounds • Atoms of the same element are identical in every way. • Atom is the smallest particle.
The most basic description that is universally understood, would be, that matter is made of atoms. Now in today’s “enlightened” world, this would be too simple of a statement to make categorically. It becomes necessary for us to take into account the advances in atom science and be able to qualify our statement. We must further state, that though matter is made up of atoms, they are no longer the smallest particles of matter. Let us begin a journey through time to be able to appreciate our understanding, of how the concept of the “smallest particle of matter” has changed over time. The first modern day proponents of the atomic theory
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