Josh Clark

And they were right.

Robert Hooke discovered cells by looking at cork through an early microscope.

And second of all, you take that rock over there, and he said it's made up, you know, if you break it up, it's made up of smaller things.

Yeah.

This is that much smaller than an atom, and everything that's in the universe now was encapsulated in that tiny little thing, whatever it was.

All of a sudden, the whole world just opened up.

And what was interesting, Chuck, was because it also dovetailed with the Industrial Revolution, Brazil, which was the rubber tree capital at the time, went from just being like this kind of old world colony to basically being one of the most important countries on the planet, like virtually within a year or so.

But if you keep breaking that thing up, you're never going to get down to fire, no matter how small you break that thing up.

In this story, science is hastened by technological advancement, lens grinding, to make microscopes, and then this new technology is used to further science, right?

That's right.

And again, surely astrophysicists and cosmologists, when they were coming up with these calculations, were like, this can't be right.

Right.

So he came up with this idea that you could break something down to finally its most basic unit, an indivisible unit that he called atomos, which is Latin or Greek for atoms.

And it's just creating steam.

Right, exactly.

Yeah, and that's what ITER is doing right now.

And then again, the idea that you can use Occam's razor to disprove something just by showing that it's not the simplest explanation, that's not correct.

Yeah, it's like mutual inspiration between Leeuwenhoek and Hook.

That's what they're trying to prove.

And I guess over time, they were like, it seems to be right.