Subject: Do atoms bounce non- stop?

I was holding a pingpong ball and dropped it on the table to count the number 
of bounces it would take until coming to a complete stop. After verifying the 
actual number ( which was 27 )I conducted my little expirement several times, 
from different hieghts. No matter how high I dropped the ball from, it always 
bounced 27 times until it stoped. I figured that after the first bounce, the 
hieght in which 
the ball traveled the second time was half the distance. And so forth and so 
on...until the ball stopped bouncing. I also discovered that the number of 
times the ball bounced, also depended on the type of surface it contacted with. 
But whatever the number, it would always come out the same. Is it possible that 
anything that bounces, contains some sort of magic number in which it will 
always bounce no matter what distance it is dropped from. I was actually 
thinking that maybe if this little theory proves true, maybe atoms follow the 
same sort of rules.    Thanks, Matt 

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