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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The energy required to break an atom depends on the atom. Some are unstable and can break up on their own. But even those atoms can’t be broken by the level of energy you can put into a knife. The atoms in a tomato are the most stable kinds, so that’s out of the question.
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