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Abstract

Richard Feynman (Feynman et al. 1963) began his famous “Lectures on Physics” with the question: “If, in some cataclysm, all of scientific knowledge were to be destroyed, and only one sentence passed on to the next generations of creatures, what statement would contain the most information in the fewest words?” His answer was: “I believe it is the atomic hypothesis that all things are made up of atoms – little particles that move around in perpetual motion, attracting each other when they are a little distance apart, but repelling upon being squeezed into one another.”