“In science, we must be interested in things, not in persons.”
- Marie Curie, physicist and chemist
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As the taxi cab turns left on the innermost orbit of the final rotunda that leads to the main building of the Blocks of Life Company, where an emergency general assembly of the essential elements is scheduled to be held at 10:00 this morning, the passenger named Silver cannot help but take a glimpse at the large, transparent (and supposedly combustion-proof) balloon monument of a hydrogen atom which adorns the center of the landmark’s minimalist concourse. It is appropriately called The Atom. Through this science-based objet d’art’s clear yet durable-looking outer covering, any human or “elemental” observer will easily notice the basic structure within: a nucleus which contains one prot
