Books, Brochures, and Chapters>Book:  Feynman , Richard P and Leighton , Robert B (2011-03-22), Six Easy Pieces, Basic Books, Retrieved on 2012-05-16
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    16 MAY 2012

     Elegant, Simple Description of the Electromagnetic Strong...

    If, in some cataclysm, all of scientific knowledge were to be destroyed, and only one sentence passed on to the next generations of creatures, what statement would contain the most information in the fewest words? I believe it is the atomic hypothesis (or the atomic fact, or whatever you wish to call it) that all things are made of atoms—little particles that move around in perpetual motion, attracting each other when they are a little distance apart, but repelling upon being squeezed into ...
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    Pulled together when a little distance apart, but repel one another when squeezed together.

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