…And the clerks will inherit the Earth
—Anonymous
Steven S. Kron, MD
By describing the atom as the indivisible unit of matter in 440 B.C., Democritus of Mellitus was way ahead of his time. It took over 2,000 years, to the late 19th century, for the discovery of neutrons, protons and electrons. In less than the next 100 years, these particles were further taken apart and revealed to be composed of the strangely named particles of the Standard Model of