Democritus and the existence of atoms
We know about atoms because of scientists and electron microscopes, but the idea goes back to the ancient Greeks.
Democritus first articulated the idea of atoms. He argued that it must exist. If we continually halved something, there would be no endpoint. Therefore, there must be a fundamental unit to the world from which everything else is made.
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