Here are some Old FUN Facts
These were listed over 150 years ago regarding the atoms of matter.
They are from an 1869 publication on various branches of physics
"The spiders web is so attenuated [has been made so small] that a sufficient quantity of it to go around the earth would only weigh eight ounces; and yet this minute [my noot] thread consists of about a thousand separate filaments."
A musk deer leaves a strong smelling bodily substance called musk to mark it's territory.
"A grain of musk will diffuse a perceptible odor through an apartment for twenty years. It does this by filling the air with particles of its substance. But so inconceivably minute are these particles, that, if the musk is weighed at the end of twenty years, no loss of weight can be detected."
If you say the word minute this was -my noot- then it means -something really small something that is only a tiny fraction of something else. Just like a minute is a tiny fraction of an hour or a day.
"The microscope reveals to us wonders of animal life that are almost incredible. It shows us in duck-weed animalcules so small that it would take ten thousand millions of them to equal the size of a hemp-seed. In a single drop of ditch-water, it exhibits myriads of moving creatures. The mineral called tripoli is formed of these animalcules fossilized or turned into stone; and it has been shown that the fortieth part of a cubic inch of this mineral contains the bodies of no less than a thousand million animalcules- or more than all the human beings on the globe."
A few more side notes here from the 21st century.
Okay, yes, animalcule is still a word today.
1000 million is 1 billion. And today our souces say there are 8.3 billion people on the globe, or over 8000 million people.
Also, 150 years ago the population of the entire United States was 31, 443,321, - about 31 million. As of Janualry 2025 the population of just California is 39.5 million.
In 2010 U.S. population is shown as 308,745,538.
I guess the atoms and particles of the cosmos just keep on dividing as they have been doing since ...in the beginning.
