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Did Democritus predict atoms using sharp phase transitions
In the Wikipedia page for the Ising Model it is written without citations:
One of Democritus' arguments in support of atomism was that atoms
naturally explain the sharp phase boundaries observed in
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What were the dominant non-atomic theories of matter in the 19th century?
From what I have read, the atomic theory of matter was cemented by a 1905 paper by Einstein in which he explained the erratic motion of a bit of pollen suspended in water using the assumption that ...
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