They developed an idea called " atomism" : That everything is made of lots of lots of tiny, indivisible things.

他们提出了做“原子论”的想法：切都是由许多微小的、不可分割的东西组成的。

Democritus's atom theory marked the end of Greek natural philosophy for the time being.

德谟克利特的原子论暂标志希腊自然哲学的终结。

This billiard-ball view of matter dominated the imagination of physicists until quite modern times, until, in fact, it was replaced by the electromagnetic theory, which in its turn is developing into a new atomism.

这种对质的台球观点直主导学家的想象力，直到相当近代，直到事实上，它被电磁论所取代，而电磁论又发展成为种新的原子论。