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episode 54. You are a pile of atoms.

a pile of atoms. When you eat vanilla pudding, which is also a pile of atoms, you are really just putting those atoms next to your atoms and

waiting for some of them to trade places if things had turned out differently

back when your mom had that second glass of wine while your dad told that story about

when he sat on a jellyfish while skinny dipping, the same atoms that glom together to make your bones

and your skin and your tongue and your brain could have been rearranged to make many other things.

Carbon and oxygen and hydrogen, the whole collection of elements to make up your body

right down to the vanadium and arsenic could be popped off of you,

collected and reused to make something else if such a seemingly impossible

technology existed. Like a cosmic box of Legos the building blocks of matter can

take the shape of every form we know of from mountains to monkeys.

And if you think about this long enough, you might stumble into the same odd questions

scientists and philosophers ask from time to time time if we had an atom exchanging machine

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