Atoms, External Relations, Electric Charge

According to Logical Atomism, relations between Atoms are all external.  Likewise, according to Social Atomism, interpersonal connections are contingent relations entered into by inherently independent persons.  Now, Atomism originates from Democritus as a Physical concept, but is eventually dispossessed from that realm by the discovery of more fundamental particles that are sub-atomic therein.  Furthermore, the establishing of the Electrical character of those particles entails that the concept of External Relation no longer applies, either.  For, that that character, i. e. their 'charge' is, as has been discussed, abstracted from dynamic interaction with other atoms, shows that an atom is not inherently independent from other atoms, i. e. that its relations with them are part of its internal structure.   Similarly, as the Age of Electricity continues, the ascendance of the Internet as the predominant mode of communication may be accelerating the weakening of the centuries-old influence of Social Atomism.