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Ernest Hemingway said, “Nature, it seems, is the popular namefor milliards and milliards and milliardsof particles playing their infinite gameof billiards and billiards and billiards.” He was talking about the way that the world is made up of all manner of matter and energy, and its minute details. The smallest parts of everything we see: the atoms, molecules, elements, and compounds that make up nature—each of them is a point in space. All the little things add up to something big.
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