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	[[Atom]]s (from the {{Greek\|ἄτομος}} ''átomos'', "the indivisible") are, according to the current understanding of [[matter]], the smallest building blocks of the [[w:chemical element\|chemical element]]s. That they are not indivisible, contrary to their designation, which has its origins in the Greek natural philosophers of antiquity, is shown in particular by the phenomenon of [[w:radioactivity\|radioactivity]]. Atoms can also decay, whereby other chemical elements are formed at the same time and high-energy radiation is produced. Today, it is assumed that atoms consist of a very small but massive nucleus of [[w:nucleon\|nucleon]]s ([[w:proton\|proton]]s and [[w:neutron\|neutron]]s) and a comparatively light but much larger shell of [[w:electron\|electron]]s, which typically has a diameter in the order of 10<sup>-10</sup> m (= 10 picometres).		[[Atom]]s (from the {{Greek\|ἄτομος}} ''átomos'', "the indivisible") are, according to the current understanding of [[matter]], the smallest building blocks of the [[w:chemical element\|chemical element]]s. That they are not indivisible, contrary to their designation, which has its origins in the Greek natural philosophers of antiquity, is shown in particular by the phenomenon of [[w:radioactivity\|radioactivity]]. Atoms can also decay, whereby other chemical elements are formed at the same time and high-energy radiation is produced. Today, it is assumed that atoms consist of a very small but massive nucleus of [[w:nucleon\|nucleon]]s ([[w:proton\|proton]]s and [[w:neutron\|neutron]]s) and a comparatively light but much larger shell of [[w:electron\|electron]]s, which typically has a diameter in the order of 10<sup>-10</sup> m (= 10 picometres).

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	[[Atom]]s (from the {{Greek\|ἄτομος}} ''átomos'', "the indivisible") are, according to the current understanding of [[matter]], the smallest building blocks of the chemical elements. According to [[Rudolf Steiner]], they are not to be understood structurally as material "things", but rather as ideal spatial contents. The content is the result of mutually encountering directions of forces. [[Force]] is understood here as a one-sided spatial ([[lucifer]]ic) revelation of the [[spirit]].		[[Atom]]s (from the {{Greek\|ἄτομος}} ''átomos'', "the indivisible") are, according to the current understanding of [[matter]], the smallest building blocks of the [[w:chemical element\|chemical element]]s. That they are not indivisible, contrary to their designation, which has its origins in the Greek natural philosophers of antiquity, is shown in particular by the phenomenon of [[w:radioactivity\|radioactivity]]. Atoms can also decay, whereby other chemical elements are formed at the same time and high-energy radiation is produced. Today, it is assumed that atoms consist of a very small but massive nucleus of [[w:nucleon\|nucleon]]s ([[w:proton\|proton]]s and [[w:neutron\|neutron]]s) and a comparatively light but much larger shell of [[w:electron\|electron]]s, which typically has a diameter in the order of 10<sup>-10</sup> m (= 10 picometres).

			According to [[Rudolf Steiner]], they are not to be understood structurally as material "things", but rather as ideal spatial contents. The content is the result of mutually encountering directions of forces. [[Force]] is understood here as a one-sided spatial ([[lucifer]]ic) revelation of the [[spirit]].

	In other words: atoms, as modern [[w:quantum theory\|quantum theory]] also confirms, are not material objects in the ordinary sense but regulatively acting ideas - namely the sum of all [[physical law]]s obeyed by the forces of nature, which regulate - indeterministically - the orderly connection of all perceptible or measurable phenomena in the realm of the smallest spatially graspable units of a specific chemical element.		In other words: atoms, as modern [[w:quantum theory\|quantum theory]] also confirms, are not material objects in the ordinary sense but regulatively acting ideas - namely the sum of all [[physical law]]s obeyed by the forces of nature, which regulate - indeterministically - the orderly connection of all perceptible or measurable phenomena in the realm of the smallest spatially graspable units of a specific chemical element.

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	~~'''Atoms'''~~ (from the {{Greek\|ἄτομος}} ''átomos'', "the indivisible") are, according to the current understanding of [[matter]], the smallest building blocks of the chemical elements. According to [[Rudolf Steiner]], they are not to be understood structurally as material "things", but rather as ideal spatial contents. The content is the result of mutually encountering directions of forces. [[Force]] is understood here as a one-sided spatial ([[lucifer]]ic) revelation of the [[spirit]].		[[Atom]]s (from the {{Greek\|ἄτομος}} ''átomos'', "the indivisible") are, according to the current understanding of [[matter]], the smallest building blocks of the chemical elements. According to [[Rudolf Steiner]], they are not to be understood structurally as material "things", but rather as ideal spatial contents. The content is the result of mutually encountering directions of forces. [[Force]] is understood here as a one-sided spatial ([[lucifer]]ic) revelation of the [[spirit]].

	In other words: atoms, as modern [[w:quantum theory\|quantum theory]] also confirms, are not material objects in the ordinary sense but regulatively acting ideas - namely the sum of all [[physical law]]s obeyed by the forces of nature, which regulate - indeterministically - the orderly connection of all perceptible or measurable phenomena in the realm of the smallest spatially graspable units of a specific chemical ~~element. Such measurable phenomena or properties are, for example, the atomic mass, the chemical valency, the electronegativity or the atomic spectrum typical for the respective~~ element.		In other words: atoms, as modern [[w:quantum theory\|quantum theory]] also confirms, are not material objects in the ordinary sense but regulatively acting ideas - namely the sum of all [[physical law]]s obeyed by the forces of nature, which regulate - indeterministically - the orderly connection of all perceptible or measurable phenomena in the realm of the smallest spatially graspable units of a specific chemical element.

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'''Atoms''' (from the {{Greek|ἄτομος}} ''átomos'', "the indivisible") are, according to the current understanding of [[matter]], the smallest building blocks of the chemical elements. According to [[Rudolf Steiner]], they are not to be understood structurally as material "things", but rather as ideal spatial contents. The content is the result of mutually encountering directions of forces. [[Force]] is understood here as a one-sided spatial ([[lucifer]]ic) revelation of the [[spirit]].

In other words: atoms, as modern [[w:quantum theory|quantum theory]] also confirms, are not material objects in the ordinary sense but regulatively acting ideas - namely the sum of all [[physical law]]s obeyed by the forces of nature, which regulate - indeterministically - the orderly connection of all perceptible or measurable phenomena in the realm of the smallest spatially graspable units of a specific chemical element. Such measurable phenomena or properties are, for example, the atomic mass, the chemical valency, the electronegativity or the atomic spectrum typical for the respective element.