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The Miraculous Atom:

The Building Block of All Things

When a living thing dies, its atoms disperse and become com-
ponents of something else, such as a tree, a bacterium, or a rain-
drop. These fundamental building blocks of absolutely everything
are so minute that 500,000 of them laid one on top of the other
could still be hidden behind a single hair. In other words, it is next
to impossible to imagine just how small one atom is. The following
comparison may be cited to allow us to understand this:
A millimeter is a line this long “- ”. Let us imagine that you

have divided that line into 1000 equal parts. Each one of these parts
is 1 micron long. This is the size of micro-organisms. A typical par-
amecium is 2 microns in size. In other words, it is really minuscule.
If you wanted to see this organism inside a drop of water you
would have to magnify the drop so that it was 12 m (39.4 ft) or so
in diameter. Yet if you wanted to see the atoms in that same drop
of water you would have to make it 24 km (14.91 miles) in diame-
ter. To put it another way, atoms exist on an entirely different size
dimension. In order to go down to the atomic level you would
have to take each one of these 1-micron slivers and further subdi-
vide them 10,000 times. The size of an atom is this: One 10 mil-
lionth of a millimeter. The following comparison will help us un-
derstand this better: The size of an atom compared to a line just 1
mm(0.0393 in) in length is equivalent to that of the thickness of a

piece of paper compared to the height of the Empire State Building,
one of the tallest buildings in the USA. 1
By His will, everything that exists is made up of atoms of this
incredible size. Even more amazingly, 99.9999% of each atom is ac-
tually empty. The only reason why atoms combine to form molecu-