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God and the Atom
From Democritus to the Higgs Boson
Victor J. Stenger
(2013)
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- Hardback: 332 sider
- Udgiver: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Incorporated (Juni 2013)
- ISBN: 9781616147532
In this book, physicist Victor J. Stenger makes the case that, in the final analysis, atoms and the void are all that exists.
The book begins with the story of the earliest atomists - the ancient Greek philosophers Leucippus, Democritus, and Epicurus, and the Latin poet Lucretius. As the author notes, the idea of elementary particles as the foundation of reality had many opponents throughout history - from Aristotle to Christian theologians and even some nineteenth-century chemists and philosophers. While theists today accept that the evidence for the atomic theory of matter is overwhelming, they reject the atheistic implications of that theory.
In conclusion, the author underscores the main point made throughout this work: the total absence of empirical facts and theoretical arguments to support the existence of any component to reality other than atoms and the void can be taken as proof beyond a reasonable doubt that such a component is nowhere to be found.