Tim Coats

The atoms in our bodies are billions and billions of years old. Scientists claim they were created at the beginning of the universe or later by nuclear fusion in the center of stars. How these atoms got here, and where they are going, is beyond my imagination. The concept of an atom was first proposed by the Roman poet and philosopher Lucretius, in his epic poem “On the Nature of Things,” written over two-thousand years ago. Our life is a brief moment in an atom’s long