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Scattered in heaps within the skeleton's ribs, arranged in lines beneath the thorax and shoulders as though dropped from decayed strings, lay quarts and quarts of finest pierced pearls, from pinhead size to hickory-nut. There were necklaces of grizzly bears' teeth, the largest ever found, strung with buttons of copper and silver. There were tortoise shell fragments and a swan cut in tortoise shell and effigy pipes-one, in the image of a standing wolf, beautifully cut; another, a foot in length and highly polished, showing a bear. There were cloths, folded beneath the grisly...
...cover the earth with a foot of water." Yet, "if we made ,one of these hydrogen atoms, which we used to think of as hard and indivisible, so large that it became a yard in diameter, nothing would yet be appreciable, because its electron would still be only a pinhead in size and its nucleus 2,000 times smaller. So while you might distinguish the orbit, its planet [electron] and sun [nucleus] would still be nearly invisible. In other words, practically all of the hydrogen atom is apparently space . ." .as empty as the sky, almost as empty as a perfect...
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...beyond human comprehension. Its diameter is about 30 trillionths of an inch. The most powerful microscope known would barely enable us to see an object 200 atoms wide, and if an atom were about the size of a large office building, an electron would be the size of a pinhead. Professor Thomson was Cavendish professor of experimental physics in Cambridge University from 1884 un- til 1918. During that time he developed a great research laboratory which attracted workers from all parts of the world. He received the Nobel prize for physics in 1906, and holds many other awards and honors...