We talk about atoms. Turns out, they're everything.
Who is Eminem? (Eminem.com)Flavor Flav's clock necklace (Yahoo)Who is Flo Rida? (officialflo.com)What is an atom? (Wikipedia)Atomic structure timeline (Lee Buescher)The Greeks and the 'atomos' (ChemTeam)How the atom got its name (PhysLink)Atoms are building blocks...like Lego (Science Defined)What is a metal? (Science Daily)What is a nonmetal? (Simple Wikipedia)Metals, nonmetals & the in-betweeny ones (Wikipedia)Old school labs where they figured atoms out (Rutherford's Nuclear World)Atomic structure from the Greeks to Dalton (ChemTeam)Thomson's plum pudding model (Encyclopaedia Brittanica)Rutherford's planetary orbit model (Encyclopaedia Brittanica)Atoms are basically empty space (Jefferson Lab)Cool scale model of solar system (Josh Worth)The Earth as a peppercorn (National Optical Astronomy Observatory)We can't know where an electron is (Wikibooks)Protons, neutrons & electrons (Wikipedia)Number of protons in a nucleus defines the element (Wikipedia)What is helium? (Jefferson Lab)Helium structure (Wikipedia)How the Star Trek transporter works (Wikia)What is a worm hole? (Space.com)The periodic table - how atoms are organised (ptable.com)Hydrogen is the simplest atom (Jefferson lab)The 4 forces that hold atoms together (etacude)Protons have a positive charge (About Education)Neutrons have no charge (About Education)Electrons have a negative charge (About Education)What is alchemy? (Live Science)Turning lead into gold (About Education)Elon Musk (Wikipedia)Where do atoms come from? (UCSB)The universe is about 14 billion years old (Wikipedia)First there was hydrogen & helium (Wikipedia)Hydrogen & helium in the early universe (ScienceBlogs)When stars started to form (NASA)What are stars? (NASA)Making elements inside stars (BBC)What happens inside our sun? (NASA)It takes thousands to millions of years for photons to escape the sun (NASA)Stellar nucleosynthesis - how stars make stuff (Wikipedia)How long do stars live? (Scientific American)Carbon-nitrogen-oxygen cycle in the sun (Encyclopaedia Brittanica)All elements on Earth were made in a star (Physics.org)Our sun will die in about 5 billion years (Space.com)What happens when a star dies? (ESA)Earth's carbon cycle (NASA)Water gulping out of a bottle (Physics Stack Exchange)H2O (Wikipedia)Increasing atomic number (generally) means increasing atomic weight (Ptable)What is a vaccuum? (Wikipedia)Space is not a perfect vaccuum (Wikipedia)Neil deGrasse Tyson explains the vaccuum of space (Raw Stories)Density in outer space (Hypertextbook)Osmosis (BBC)The universe likes equilibrium (Encyclopaedia Brittanica)Timeline of atomic models in 20th century (Wikipedia)John Dalton: 1766-1844 (Wikipedia)J J Thomson: 1856-1940 (Wikipedia)Cathode ray tubes in old TVs (How Stuff Works - Tech)Thomson's cathode ray experiments (Wikipedia)Smashing an old TV with a brick (YouTube)What is an explosion? (Chemistry Explained)Jason Donovan (JasonDonovan.com)Earnest Rutherford: 1871-1937 (Rutherford's Nuclear World)Rutherford's famous gold foil experiment (Wikipedia)Neils Bohr: 1885-1962 (Wikipedia)The Bohr model with shells (Wikipedia)Electron shells (Wikipedia)Electrons move between shells via quantum jumps (Physics World)Quantum Leap TV show (Wikipedia)Inner Space movie (IMDb)Dennis Quaid (Biography.com)What is a photon? (Ducksters)Spectral lines help us see the universe & identify substances (Cosmos - Swinburne)Sodium emits a yellowy light when heated (Wikipedia)Click on the element to see its spectral lines (PennState Behrend)What is a molecule? (About Education)Silent disco (Silent Storm Sound System)What is carbon dating? (NOSAMS)Nothing heavier than iron is (usually) made in a "normal" star (Astronomy Notes)Atom work was disrupted during WW1 (Rutherford's Nuclear World)How WW1 started according to Baldrick (JohnDClare)William Kay - Rutherford's faithful lab assistant (The Royal Society)Nagaoka's Saturnian model (Wikipedia)Corrections
Carbon has 6 protons (Wikipedia)John was wrong - the atoms stopped being made after 20 minutes, not 380,000 years (Wikipedia)Cheeky review? (If we may be so bold)
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