Tuesday, May 26, 2009

Senior Portfolio: Prepared Notebook Entry

Senior Portfolio
Sophie’s World


They are easy to assemble, she thought. Even though they are different, they fit together. They also unbreakable. She couldn’t remember ever seeing a broken Lego block (42) The best thing about them was that with Lego she can construct any object and then she could separate them and create something new”(42)Nature is really built up of different “atoms” that join and separate again. A hydrogen atom in a cell at the end of my nose was once part of an elephant’s trunk (44)
He therefore assumed that everything was built up of tiny invisible blocks, each of which was eternal and immutable. Democritus called these smallest units atoms” (43)





The fitting analogy of how toy blocks can e the most ingenious toy can be compared to a invisible state of matter in which all living things are made up of in the world.
The philosopher gives Sophie a very easy lesson to relate as well. The Lego block is not easily broken, but the bodies built out of these blocks are easily broken. The application of the Lego blocks towards the state of matter gives the reader where the whole genius of the toy and those who created it has gotten the idea. The literal idea was that the philosopher looked beyond the purpose of the atom and gave example of how every broken body atoms would scatter in the wind to create a new object. The example of "someone’s cardiac muscle’s atom that used to a dinosaur’s tail."

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