Dutch Uncle
* Tertia Optio * Defend the Constitution
Atoms are not fundamental. Atoms are manifested by quarks, leptons, bosons - they are fundamental particles. Those fundamental particles are not made up of anything smaller...as far as we know.
At a deeper level, matter is presumed to just be perturbations in the Higgs field and other energy fields. So maybe everything is just a manifestation of energy fields.
Carbon is not uniquely organic. Atmospheric CO2, graphite, and diamond are purely inorganic forms of carbon. Carbon manifests as organic molecules when it forms chains and polymers with hydrogen, oxygen, nitrogen.
That is the best of my recollections from university level science classes. I may be missing a detail or two.
All that goes further than I am willing to travel.
This is about as deep as I care to explore it:
