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My older brother Panaki Bose spent hours of his time explaining atoms to me when I barely understood basic algebra.
I hope no one in this room thinks that what that means is there is a thing called water, and attached to it are hydrogen and oxygen atoms, and that's what water is.
They make up a single, giant edifice obeying the same physical laws and all made from the same types of atoms, electrons, protons, quarks, neutrinos, that make up you and me.
That's a one followed by 500 zeros, a number so vast that if every atom in our observable universe had its own universe, and all of the atoms in all those universes each had their own universe, and you repeated that for two more cycles, you'd still be at a tiny fraction of the total, namely, one trillion trillion trillion trillion trillion trillion trillion trillion trillion trillion trillion trillion trillion trillion trillionth.
It says that if you examine any piece of matter ever more finely, at first you'll find molecules and then you'll find atoms and subatomic particles.
You probably already know everything is made up of little tiny things called atoms or even that each atom is made up of even smaller particles called protons, neutrons and electrons.
And you've probably heard that atoms are small.
But I bet you haven't ever thought about how small atoms really are.
So you ask, just how small are atoms?
To understand this, let's ask this question: How many atoms are in a grapefruit?
Well, let's assume that the grapefruit is made up of only nitrogen atoms, which isn't at all true, but there are nitrogen atoms in a grapefruit.
To help you visualize this, let's blow up each of the atoms to the size of a blueberry.
You mean to say that if I filled the Earth with blueberries, I would have the same number of nitrogen atoms as a grapefruit?
If atoms are like blueberries in the Earth, how big would the nucleus be?
Remember this vast region of empty space is inside the blueberry, which is inside the Earth, which really are the atoms in the grapefruit.
Think atoms in a grapefruit like blueberries in the Earth.
But we wanted it to look at atoms, at iron atoms, so that we could read the page from before and after.
And these electrons, while flowing, they collide with the atoms, and in these collisions they lose a certain amount of energy.
Protein folding, a topic that shares the incredible expansiveness of chess — there are more ways of folding a protein than there are atoms in the universe.
And microscopes that we have today can actually see individual atoms.
So these are some pictures of individual atoms.
This is a ring of cobalt atoms.
It's not hard: it's just three oxygen atoms.
We call this a compound or a molecule, and it is 26 atoms that are stitched together by atomic bonds.
The unique arrangement of these atoms gives epinephrine its identity, but nobody has ever actually seen one of these, because they're very small, so we're going to call this an artistic impression, and I want to explain to you how small this is.
We know it is made of four different types of atoms, hydrogen, carbon, oxygen and nitrogen.
Everything in our universe is made of little spheres that we call atoms.
We arrange these atoms into this familiar table.
And there are four atoms in particular that stand apart from the rest as the main building blocks of life, and they are the same ones that are found in epinephrine: hydrogen, carbon, nitrogen and oxygen.
When these atoms connect to form molecules, they follow a set of rules.
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