Posted on 02/02/2016 4:29:12 PM PST by MtnClimber
Chemistry teachers recently had to update their classroom decor, with the announcement that scientists have confirmed the discovery of four new elements on the periodic table. The as-yet unnamed elements 113, 115, 117 and 118 filled in the remaining gaps at the bottom of the famous chart-a roadmap of matter's building blocks that has successfully guided chemists for nearly a century and a half.
The official confirmation, granted by the International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry (IUPAC), was years in the making, as these superheavy elements are highly unstable and tough to create. But scientists had strong reason to believe they existed, in part because the periodic table has been remarkably consistent so far. Efforts to conjure up elements 119 and 120, which would start a new row, are already underway.
But exactly how many more elements are out there remains one of chemistryâs most persistent mysteries, especially as our modern understanding of physics has revealed anomalies even in the established players.
(Excerpt) Read more at smithsonianmag.com ...
For most of us it is the last day of high school.
Bad place to go for any understanding of any subject - I canceled my subscription due to the total hype of the misleading headlines, the bad writing, lack of images of subject and so on. Mostly a lefty screed for science hype - climate change and the like.
The laws of infinity demand no answer. We can’t borrow what is not due...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jRzmXjk7-1I
LOL!
Like when we reach the end of the internet and go hurling into the sun ...
Not here.
Ping
I would suppose that theoretically there would be none.
Practically, however, there has got to be a limit as those heaviest atoms are extremely unstable and there is probably a point where the instability precludes an chance that the atom would hold together at all.
There are no laws of infinity. Infinity is a mathematical concept that does not exist in the time and space that we call the universe.
I would expect that these heaviest atoms don’t have a problem existing for the long term at the core of a sufficiently massive star.
Metalpause. There may be hot flashes, though.
There is no One Universe.
Infinity does not allow for infinity ...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=69e-K_8RArQ&list=PLAFb89KDm1Ep_UwbgUI7aqIQ0_WVLveA0&index=17
Our inability to comprehend infinity is not proof it doesn’t exist (is that three negatives ?).
Post of the day!
Just as Pluto is not a planet, these man-made transient atoms are not elements.
You can’t fly apart if there is no space to fly apart in .
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