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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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