You can’t see matter

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   Mike on October 22, 2020 at 12:29 pm

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   Idea: You can’t see matter

   Link: https://ideamill.info/you-cant-see-atoms...

   “atoms” came before “matter” idea, so linking back to this as they are related,

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   Link: https://ideamill.info/you-cant-s

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   sunnyjim on May 21, 2020 at 11:08 am

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   Till I saw this idea, I thought matter was the only thing I could see. Maybe I need to rethink this. Thanks.

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   Blinko on March 30, 2020 at 8:50 am

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   Idea: You can’t see matter

   Link: https://www.quora.com/Is-matter-visible...

   Don’t trust those on Quora who try to help out but don’t think things through. Your eye can’t touch or reach the matter it is looking at, it can sense the light that travels to it from the object made of matter.

   Is matter visible? - Quora

   Link: https://www.quora.com/Is-matter-

   Is matter visible? A lot of it is, yes. Hold your hand in front of your eyes, for instance, and tell me if anything registers.However, not all matter reflects photons in the optical-wavelength part of the electromagnetic spectrum. Examples include hydrogen, helium, nitrogen, neon, argon, krypton, an... Read more

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   Mickey on March 30, 2020 at 8:43 am

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   Idea: You can’t see matter

   Link: https://www.quora.com/Why-can-we-not-see-a...

   Yep, I guess if you can’t see atoms, then you can’t see matter. Never thought of it that way but yeah, all is light. weird.

   Why can we not see atoms? - Quora

   Link: https://www.quora.com/Why-can-we

   Why can we not see atoms?

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   Miss Entropic on March 30, 2020 at 8:33 am

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   Idea: You can’t see matter

   Link: https://www.nyu.edu/pages/mathmol/textbook...

   NYU says you can – but then they are explaining things to those who don’t have much knowledge – so keeping it simple…

   MathMol -- Mathematics and Molecules

   Link: https://www.nyu.edu/pages/mathmo

   K-12 Jmol Tutorial New This tutorial is the same as below except it uses Jmol which only requires Java enabled browsers.

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