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Date: Sat, 12 Nov 2011 12:06:23 -0400
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From: "Richard P. Feynman" <rpf@example.com>
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Subject: atoms
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To: "Democritus" <demo@example.com>
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If, in some cataclysm, all scientific knowledge were to be destroyed,
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and only one sentence passed on to the next generation of creatures,
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what statement would contain the most information in the fewest words?
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I believe it is the atomic hypothesis (or atomic fact, or whatever you
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wish to call it) that all things are made of atoms — little particles
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that move around in perpetual motion, attracting each other when they
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are a little distance apart, but repelling upon being squeezed into
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one another. In that one sentence you will see an enormous amount of
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information about the world, if just a little imagination and thinking
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are applied.
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