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Reality's pixels: mostly empty space pretending very convincingly to be solid stuff.

means The basic units of matter, each a nucleus of protons and neutrons orbited by electrons.

from From Greek atomos, the uncuttablecoined when philosophers bet matter had a smallest piece. They were right about the idea, wrong about the name: we cut them anyway.

Mostly nothingOver 99.9999 percent empty space inside.
Old recyclersYour atoms are billions of years old.
Star forgedHeavy atoms born in dying stars.
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