atom
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Extrapolating backward in time, Lemaître proposed the idea of a primeval atom: a singularity from which the universe emerged in a uniquely hot, dense state.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 19, 2026
In its first moments, the universe was a seething soup of elementary particles and energetic photons that would destroy any atom before it could form.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 19, 2026
The first phase involved determining if he predated the "nuclear age", which began in 1945 when the US first tested the atom bomb in New Mexico, the coroner heard.
From BBC • Apr. 14, 2026
One way to picture this is as a single atom linked to a wave at several distant points.
From Science Daily • Apr. 13, 2026
They also discovered that radioactive elements decayed into other elements–that one day you had an atom of uranium, say, and the next you had an atom of lead.
From "A Short History of Nearly Everything" by Bill Bryson
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Quantum of Vocabulary: the Parlance of Particle Physics
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Matter and Energy 1: Atoms and Molecules
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