Understanding atoms.

[Purple Rabbit]

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I wonder what causes these sub atomic particles to come together to form atoms? You've got the forces too?? It sounds like you'd need organisation or dare I say fore-thought??

There certainly is organisation: the laws of nature. You can think of it as information. The laws of nature can be traced back for a good deal to certain symmetries. So you might say, more or less, that the symmetries ensure stablity to the laws of nature.

Without the symmetries and the laws of nature there would be chaos and no basis for creatures like us to contemplate on existence.