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Now that a visitor to a physics laboratory can be shown a solitary barium Vion glowing like a tiny star caught in a bottle, skepticism about the existence of atoms seems as quaint and remote from our time as belief in a flat Earth.14 Yet less than a century ago, serious thinkers still doubted the reality of atoms.
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Useful works on Boltzmann and Mach include: Engelbert Broda’s Ludwig Boltzmann: Man, Physicist, Philosopher (1983);
Useful works on Boltzmann and Mach include: John Blackmore’s Mach: His Work, Life and Influence (1972);
Useful works on Boltzmann and Mach include: Cohen and Seeger (eds.) Ernst Mach: Physicist and Philosopher (1970).
Kac’s riposte to Feynman: see the review of Kac’s memoir Enigmas of Chance (1985) in Ann. Prob. 14, No. 4 (1986), p. 1147.
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Wick, D. (1995). Prologue I Atoms. In: The Infamous Boundary. Birkhäuser Boston. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4612-5361-7_1
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