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On the other hand, Einstein's goal in the second of his annus mirabilis papers (the one explaining Brownian motion) "was precisely to prove the reality of atoms
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On the other hand, Einstein's goal in the second of his annus mirabilis papers (the one explaining Brownian motion) "was precisely to prove the reality of atoms", in the face of the then famous skepticism of thinkers like Mach.
https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/einstein-philscience/ https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/einstein-philscience/