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which in the modern sense has been utterly transformed. It is that in which is included the whole (David Bohm). It is that whose movement shakes the entire universe (Eddington whose actual words are "when the electron vibrates, the universe shakes"). It is that in which can be found the rudiments of mind itself (Delbruck) It is that whose very nature depends on the consciousness of the human who is observing it (Heisenberg). It is that to which death cannot be attributed. (David Bohm). It is that which defies entropic decay and disorganisation (Ilya Prigogine, winner of the Nobel prize for his discovery of "dissipative structures" And. it is that which shares with spiritual values a similar kind of reality (Wigner).
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Here are some striking statistics about the atom revealed by New Science of to-day: (1) one C.C. of air is said to contain, 10 billion billions of molecules. A molecule is the smallest physical unit of an element or compound that can exist separately and still keep the properties of the original substance.
(2) The diameter of an atom is 1/100 millionth of a centimeter.
(3) An atom will have the nucleus of protons, electrons, neutrons etc. and the confinement of electrons in an atom results in the velocity of about 600 miles per second. The electrons revolve round the nucleus.
(4) The nuclear force that keeps protons and neutrons together tightly bound within the nucleus is totally a new phenomena. As neutrons are electrically neutral, the force binding them is not of electromagnetic origin, and outside the nucleus such force in not known to physics as ever existing.
(5) An atomic nucleus is about one hundred thousand times smaller than the whole atom, yet it contains almost all the mass of an atom. The neucleons in the nucleus respond to their confinement with velocities of about forty thousand miles per second and the last but not the least.
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