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been found no longer possible to use the old model of
supposing that what was being done was to divide up
something called matter into a series of bits, each with
definite properties called size, weight, or position.
Physicists do not now say that matter ‘is made’ of bodies
called atoms, protons, electrons, and so on. What they
have done is to give up the materialist method of
describing their observations in terms of something made
as by a human process of manufacture, like a cake. The
word atom or electron is not used as the name of a piece.
It is used as part of the description of the observations of
physicists. It has no meaning except as used by people
who know the experiments by which it is revealed.
And, he adds, “it is important to realize that great changes in
ways of ordinary human speaking and acting are bound up with