Warp wrote:

>   You cannot "see" an individual atom because the wavelength of visible
> light is too large.

No. But you could, in principle, construct some kind of meaninful visual 
representation of them.

> It's also a misconception (cleared about 100 years
> ago) that subatomic particles are spherical (or have any definite shape
> for that matter).

As far as I understand it, phycasists still don't really understand 
exactly what these particles "are" yet. But they know many of their 
properties and how they interact, which is probably the most useful 
thing to know if you're trying to design coherant theories about them...

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