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Around 1900, there was a huge debate amongst scientists on whether the molecular hypothesis of nature -- ie that matter consisted of moving particles -- was something worthy of study. Basically, there was no experiment that had a result that required the existence of molecules. For that reason, many (if not most) scientists thought that only macroscopic, measurable entities (pressure, temperature) should be studied.

Einstein showed that the Brownian Motion of small dust particles could only be explained as the random strikes of molecules in the atmosphere against the dust particle. Assuming the existence of molecules made the explanation of Brownian Motion trivial, assuming the opposite made an explanation impossible.

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