The word atom is derived from the Greek atomos, meaning “uncuttable,” and was popularized by Democritus as a fundamental, indivisible building block of natural matter around the turn of the 4th century BCE. Although other philosophers across the world developed similar theories, it was not until the turn of the 19th century that the existence of atoms was definitively proved by science. However, at the turn of the 20th century, J.J. Thompson demonstrated the existence of subatomic particles, and these were in turn found to be reducible into elementary (or fundamental) particles. These discoveries, dividing what was previously considered indivisible, have revolutionized physics and spawned a number of subfields. In 2010, the Large Hadron Collider (a hadron being a type of subatomic particle) gained international attention for creating the highest-energy man-made particle collisions. It is the hope of particle physicists that experiments using the collider will be able to shed light on a number of fundamental questions about the laws of nature.

Which of the following statements is NOT supported by the passage?


A. The theory of atoms was proposed long before it was proved.
B. The hadron is not the smallest type of particle.
C. Students of particle physics hope to answer questions about the laws of nature.
D. The atom was first discovered by Democritus.
E. The theory of atoms was proposed by multiple philosophers