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say,\"What,Jim?\"And he would explain it to me,and though I couldn't really understand,still I would feelsomething,a cool fizzing behind my ears,because I was feeding off his astonishment.  \n5Then one day I had the real thing,an amazement of my own.That day was a little strange tobegin with,because when I came down to the basement,Jim wasn't tinkering—he was reading.Watching a person read isn't the most fascinating thing in the world,even if he has a jawbreakerclacking around in his mouth,and after a minute of that I was ready to leave when Jim barked out a\"Whoa!\"I jumped down and said my usual,\"What,Jim?\"but he only warded me off with his hand andkept on reading.Every minute or so another \"Whoa!\"came out,each one louder than the last.Thencame three in a row:“Whoa!Whoa!WWWHOA!”  \n6\"Jim!What!\"I screeched and snatched the book away.  \n7He looked at me as if he didn't know me.Young as I was,I understood that he was stillback inthe book,immersed in his amazement.  \n8Finally he said it,one word:\"Protons.\"  \n9 \"What are protons?\"I said.  \n10 He took the book from my hands.His eyes returned to the present.He began talking,explaining.He talked about atoms first,the tiny building blocks of everything,smaller than molecules,smaller than specks.\"So small,\"he said,\"millions can fit in a flea's eye.\"That got my attention.  \n11 Then he zeroed in on protons.Atoms may be mostly space,he said,but a proton is nothing buta proton.Small as an atom is,a proton is millions of times smaller.\"You could squint ill your eyeballspop out and you'llnever see one,\"he said,daring me to try.  \n12 \"And you know what the coolest thing about protons is?\"he said.  \n13 \"What?\"Isaid.  \n14 He clacked his jawbreaker for a while,building the suspense.\"You can't do anything to them,\"he said.“You can't break them.You can't burn them.You can't blow them up.Atoms you can smash,but you can't smash a proton.”  \n15 \"Not even with a steamroller?\"I said.  \n16 \"Not even with a 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