clipka wrote:
> Talk about atoms - the ancient greeks "invented" them. 

Yes, and they also didn't believe in irrational numbers even after they were 
proved to exist. So I don't think you can pick one success out of history 
and call it a "prediction".

I mean, there's really only two or three possibilities: Stuff is atoms, 
stuff is continuous, stuff is a mixture. :-)

The greeks had no evidence of atoms, as far as I know. It was just a guess. 
It wasn't until Mendeleev (or the work that lead up to the periodic table) 
or so that people actually had evidence that atoms were the right answer.

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