Atoms cannot be explained

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We do not know what atoms are

Robert Oppenheimer, head of the atom bomb programme, when asked by a journalist to describe an atom, said, “Something unknown is doing we do not know what”.

An atom is far too small to see and behaves in ways that is totally different to anything that we can see. We humans only understand by comparing atoms that we cannot see to things that we can see. So we have our wave-particle duality to help explain an atom or the components of an atom. But no particle that is big enough for us to see normally behaves like a wave.

Because atoms do not behave like things that we can see, we will never really understand what they are.

We can understand their behavior but we do not really understand what is behaving like that.

We never see the components of atoms as particles. Protons and electrons always appear in our experiments as bursts of energy on a screen, or clicks in a Geiger counter, or lines in a cloud or bubble chamber.

So there is an invisible veil where matter (as we imagine it) and energy intertwine and we cannot clearly differentiate between the matter and the energy. And since energy is invisible (we only see the effects of energy, not the energy itself. In the same way we only see the effects of time, but we have never seen time itself) we have never seen energy. So if we detect light on a screen then we know that energy can cause light but we have no clue what the energy is that caused the light. Then we claim that the burst of light on the screen was caused by an electron. But the burst of light does not tell us what the electron looks like.

There is a mystery veil at some “not too clear size”

Above that size we can see something and it behaves like our normal world that we can see. Below that size and it fades from our view and behaves in its own unexpected manner. We can only explain it with mathematics. But we cannot visualize a complex mathematical equation, especially when “amplitude” of a wave no longer means the normal loudness of a wave but is rather linked to the probability of the atom being there.

Yes, energy is invisible. We think of atomic particles as compressed energy. But we cannot see single units of compressed energy. But a lot of particles have to join together before matter begins to behave in the way that we are used to matter behaving in our real world.

The atomic world is too different for us to recognize

We just learn its rules from experiments.

What those tiny things are, we do not understand.

Our only guiding light is mathematics.

But the maths is complex so we cannot visualize that either, although it gives us accurate answers.

If we cannot scientifically explain what an atom is then we certainly cannot explain scientifically how atoms were created in the beginning.

Only God can produce the miracle of creation from nothing.