A-tom, i.e. in-dividual


Without any doubt, Atom in Physics is not undividable: electrons around the nucleus, and protons and neutrons inside the nucleus, and mesons binding hadrons, and quarks and gluons inside both mesons hadrons, and W and Z bosons showing-up from time to time, and neutrino, etc.
But "a-tomos" means in English "in-dividual" = un-divisible – a thing in itself – a person. In this sense, in spite of the fact, that a body consists of legs, arms, chemical elements, proteins, water and iron, a "person" remains undividable.
Like Democritus’ A-tomos.

Ringrazio Mario Fedrizzi per suggerimento di questo tema

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