potato comments on Were atoms real? - Less Wrong

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Comment author: potato 05 July 2012 08:17:49PM *  0 points [-]

If I thought that atoms were unreal, I would not expect to be able to photograph them. I also wouldn't expect a single atom to be capable of casting a shadow. That's some ways (and there are many more) that I could be wrong about atoms being unreal mere pedagogical tools.