Darren New escreveu:
> 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.

Indeed.  And atoms are not even atomic in the original sense of the 
greek word... ;)

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