I am not sure if its a rly dumb question, probably is but I was just wondering isn’t it possible to accidentally, at some point in life cut an atom in half since they are everywhere? If the said scenario is possible what exactly would happen? Can it even happen?
Imagine you are cutting tomatoes, if there is an air atom somewhere in the cutting board, isn’t there a chance even tho its rly small that I will hit exactly the spot by accident and by doing so cut an atom?
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No. A knife edge is also made of atoms (or really molecules which are even larger than atoms).
Think of cutting something like a person moving through a dense crowd. The person can push others out of the way and slip in between, but they are just a person as well, and they aren’t going to be able to just split another person in two to get through.
Edit to add a little more: It’s also that the link between atoms is much easier to break than splitting the atom. So in my analogy, imagine the people in the crowd are loosely holding hands. It’s easier to push them apart than to well, split the people in half.
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