atoms

[EyeSore]

so every thing is made up of atoms ok. so atoms maybe are or are not aware in some way. so atoms are in some way aware, self aware, and aware of other atoms? ok. so in some way could, can, do atoms communicate with each other? (they probably are some way in basically constant communication right?) ...so because i'm human and angela i tend to give human traits to non-numan things and we're speaking some levels below or above things being human anyway... atoms communicate with other atoms in a way like one person communicates with another person?

[timo]

I'm not completely sure I understand what you mean. How do you think humans communicate? Do you mean the underlying physical principles which would be electromagnetism (e.g. gesture and mimic are transported via optics) and sounds (voice). Or do you mean a more "esoteric" (the term is not meant to express disrespect here; I just have not better term for it) level, i.e. that humans at least partially engage in communication consciously with some goal in mind?

 

In the former case: different parts of the atoms have different electrical charges and mobilities. This causes various effects like sharing more mobile parts (electrons) between different atoms which causes them to stick to another (and form molecules). The molecules then can interact with other molecules e.g. by repelling each other when they come too close or by creating small electric fields around them which are felt by other molecules. That's just examples (and very rough ones). There is a huge variety of effects and whole fields are dedicated just to singe aspects of this (and we've not even reached the size of a cell, there).

 

In the latter case: Atoms are usually not considered conscious. Humans usually are. Somewhere between atoms and humans, the transit must occur, leaving room for an arbitrary amount of wild and incompetent speculations. Since I don't want to participate in these right now and since you didn't really ask for that: It is not common to give human traits to atoms. I don't think it is helpful. To take a more everyday example: It is not very helpful to think that things fall down because earth wants them to stay close. It is common to think that gravitational attraction between earth and the objects happens to be a property that they simply have. Same way, atoms just consist of the various charged parts with the exact properties that causes them to form more complex structures.