re after years can we say that christian morality is mark mccullough mccullou snake cs wisc edu wrote in article ursa bear com halat pooh bears jim halat writes atoms are not objective they aren t even real what scientists call an atom is nothing more than a mathematical model that describes certain physical observable properties of our surroundings all of which is subjective jim halat this deserves framing it really does atoms aren t even real tell me then those atoms we have seen with electron microscopes are atoms now so what are they figments of our imaginations the evidence that atoms are real is overwhelming but i won t bother with most evidence at the moment you would have us believe that what the eye perceives as images are actaully there as perceived this may be interesting i thought that an electron microscope was used because no wavelength of light can illuminate any object of atomic scale if this image is to have useful resolution wouldn t the illuminating sources wavelength have to be several orders of magnitude less than size of thing observed if an atom is a probablity cloud lower resolutions would give the appearance of solidity but it seems fairly certain that an atom is not an object is any conventional sense obviously i am not a physicist but the question does have ramification of a philosophic nature anyway just a stray thought carry on bill
