| Cosmic View: The Universe in 40 Jumps by Kees Boeke (1957) |
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Now the nucleus of sodium has become of appreciable size, and also in the
inset the nucleus of the hydrogen atom (a proton) is clearly "visible". As was
pointed out in -4, there is no question of the objects themselves being "visible",
as we are dealing here with dimensions which are a hundred million
times smaller than the wave lengths of light. Light functioned only up to that
drawing. So did color, which could play an appreciable role in only 14 domains
of scale (#l 0 to - 3); 1 1 to 26 could give no more than white spots on a black
background.
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