作者：Raymond King Cummings 字数：11.6万字

Then you mean to say there is no such thing as the smallestparticle of matter? asked the Doctor. "You can put it that way ifyou like," the Chemist replied. "In other words, what I believe isthat things can be infinitely small just as well as they can beinfinitely large. Astronomers tell us of the immensity of space. Ihave tried to imagine space as finite. It is impossible. How canyou conceive the edge of space? Something must be beyond-somethingor nothing, and even that would be more space, wouldn't it?""Gosh," said the Very Young Man, and lighted another cigarette. TheChemist resumed, smiling a little. "Now, if it seems probable thatthere is no limit to the immensity of space, why should we make itssmallness finite? How can you say that the atom cannot be divided?As a matter of fact, it already has been. The most powerfulmicroscope will show you realms of smallness to which you canpenetrate no other way. Multiply that power a thousand times, orten thousand times, and who shall say what you will see?"

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