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I'm sure many of the early discoveries regarding the sub-molecular structure of matter seemed pretty abstract at first. Then came the atomic bomb.
by davesque 9y ago
I'm sure many of the early discoveries regarding the sub-molecular structure of matter seemed pretty abstract at first. Then came the atomic bomb.
- Koshkin 9y agoSpeaking of atoms, indeed, as far as the ancient philosophy was concerned, atomism was a rather abstract idea. But the discoveries that confirmed the existence of atoms had been directly stimulated by the chemical research, and further advances in chemistry as well as the industry and medicine critically depended on it. (The atomic bomb, on the other hand, required the discovery of the atomic nucleus - which is a completely different object of study, and nothing about it was "abstract", either.)