Page 118 - The Miracle in the Atom

With your body made up of atoms, you are breathing atoms in the air,
eating atoms in food and drinking atoms of water. What you see is nothing
other than the collision of electrons of the atoms in your eye with photons.
And what about what you feel by touch? The sensations are simply formed
by atoms in your skin repelling atoms of objects.
Indeed, almost everyone knows today that his body, the universe, the
world, in short, everything consists of atoms. Yet, perhaps, most people so
far never thought about what kind of a system the entity we call the atom
has. Or, even if they did, they did not feel the need to investigate it, because
they always thought this concerns physicists alone.
Man, however, lives entwined within this perfect system throughout
his life. This is such a system that every one of the trillions of atoms forming
the armchair on which we sit has an order about which a book could be writ-
ten. It takes pages to tell the formation, the system and the power of a single
atom. As the technology advances and our knowledge of the universe incre-
ases, these pages also increase.
How then did this order form? It cannot be that the atoms came into
being by themselves in the wake of the Big Bang and then an appropriate en-
vironment was formed by chance, and these atoms combined randomly to
form the elements that comprised the universe. It is certainly impossible to
explain such a system by "chance". Everything you see around you, and
even the air you cannot see, consist of atoms, and there is a very complex
traffic between these atoms.
Who then can direct the traffic between the atoms? Can it be you? If you
think that your body consists of atoms alone, then which one of your atoms

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