Author: Dr Sharvari Kulkarni
For thousands of years, humans have stood on the shores of the visible world, staring out at the horizon of the invisible. We have always wondered what the world is truly made of. If you take a piece of gold and keep cutting it in half, do you eventually reach a piece so small it cannot be divided anymore? This question is the heart of atomic theory—the idea that everything, from your morning coffee to the stars burning in the silent vacuum of space, is composed of tiny, invisible particles. But for most of human history, this was just a…