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Alpha radiation :) The point is that Alpha radiation doesn't pass through gold foil. Therefore there was an obvious issue when they were detecting particles passing through the foil every so often. This lead to the theory that objects consist of billions of atoms as opposed to being one solid object. Hope this helps!

Sources - L. Robinson's Higher Physics

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