The Girl in the Golden Atom

CHAPTER I

A UNIVERSE IN AN ATOM

"Then you mean to say there is no such thing as the _smallest_ particle of matter?" asked the Doctor.

"You can put it that way if you like," the Chemist replied. "In other words, what I believe is that things can be infinitely small just as well as they can be infinitely large. Astronomers tell us of the immensity ...