Responding+with+Wonderment+and+Awe

**Responding with Wonderment and Awe**
= =  Another thing that always makes me think is how everything we believe to be true is shattered such as when everyone believed the** **Thomson model was true in that an atom was like pudding with electrons embedded in a positive sphere, until Rutherford discovered the nucleus. Also, like how the universe inspires awe with its size, so do the subatomic particles since I learned that they can be further divided into leptons, bosons, and baryons and other assortments of subatomic particles that make up the electron, proton, and neutron. The fact that these already-small particles (electron, proton, neutron) can be further divided into a myriad assortment of ev** **en smaller particles is hard to imagine. I'm sure that these particles can be divided even further and their particles analyzed once we have the technology to do so. The creativity and ingenuity of scientists such as Rutherford and Bohr and the infinitesimal size of the subatomic particles really makes me wonder.**
 * Earlier last week, we received a packet of information on the structure of the atom and the subatomic particles. When reading it, I was amazed at how scientists such as Rutherford managed to devise an experiment to test a theory and ended up coming up with his own that shaped science today - the existence of the nucleus. To me, that's what someone "smart" is like - being able to from scratch design something in order to test or discover** **something else. Schrodinger also came up with the quantum mechanical model which said that electrons traveled in "areas of probability". Although I really want to, I don't think I can ever discover something that affecte****d the world from imagination and creativity alone.