What is matter made of?
Invisible Brick Party
What is matter made of?
Look at anything around you — a spoon, a cat, your own thumb. They all feel like solid, finished things. But here's the secret: everything is built out of pieces too small to see. Zoom in far enough, and the whole world turns out to be made of tiny LEGO bricks of stuff.
Take that spoon and imagine cutting it in half. Then half again. And again, and again, thousands of times. Eventually you'd reach a piece so small you couldn't cut it anymore without it stopping being that stuff. That tiniest possible piece is called an atom. Everything you can touch is made of atoms.
