jessie boswell

-who were the main characters in the development of the atom

Democritus, John Dalton, J.J Thomson, Ernest Rutherford

- Why were they vital to the development of the atom

They were all vital to the development of the atom because they each used previous knowledge on matter to figure out what

was next to come out of this uknown thing.

_ what made them differnt if anything

The thing that made them different is that they all used their minds to come to a conclusion about something so small that you could not see with your own eyes… kind of like thinking out of the box?

- Think about your lessons in history and discuss how the time period that they lived in determined the outcome of their discovery/ or how it influenced those individuals to be the names that we know today (aka did it matter where they grew up or if they had money?)

The time period did have an effect on the discovery and how it influenced those individuals to be the names we know today. The effects on discovery that in this time period very little people but the rich were educated and very few of them had the brain to think about things such as an atom!

- Why do we consider the atomic theory still a theory? What are the new developments- would love for you to share new sources here about what you find

We consider it a theory because we still do not know everything to this day about an atom; we dig deeper and deeper into the basics of an atom every day. Not all atoms are exactly the same either, which is why it is still a theory.

- Why does it matter that we understand the structure of the atom

We need to partly understand the structure of an atom so that we can build off it and see how it makes up matter. The structure of an atom basically makes up the world! Therefore, we need to have partial knowledge of how the world is holding together right??