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I Think The World Was Created By David Hasselhoff

And We Are All His Slaves, That's Why People Hate Him So Much.

......And Bobby Davro Is His Sidekick Who Did All The Technical Stuff :D

 

.....Not Got Much Evidence If Im Honest

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new thinking

 

A Proposal: Relatively Stable Heavy Elements Already Exist! They are called Neutron Stars.:P

Tweak the Physicists.

 

Neutron stars, the collapsed remnant of massive stars, really could represent dual citizens as both unique celestial objects and very heavy elements.

Considering that stars have lost electrons due to their temperatures and their energy output (considering that stars are composed of plasma, and the matter lost during violent eruptions on their surfaces is composed of highly charged positive particles - mostly hydrogen and helium nuclei - this is empirical evidence of their excess of nuclear protons). Therefore, upon collapse, protons should exist, as well as neutrons in a neutron star. Since elements are basically protons and neutrons at the core, with electrons swarming above, and since elements remain elements even if their electrons are temporarily lost (hence elements as ions), it therefore seems reasonable to think of neutron stars as merely supermassive elements!:P

The question we must then ask is: what lies between the minimum of gravitational hold found in the smallest of neutron stars, and the heaviest man-made elements yet discovered? For an update on this, see http://publicaffairs.llnl.gov/news_releases/2006/NR-06-10-03.html

The idea is that there is an island of stability between elements 105 and what lies beyond. So far, element 118 has been created, but is this the island that had been sought? Are there even more stable islands beyond element 118, and it's surrounding landmass? Perhaps there is a string of islands in the line of archipelagos, and we are just starting to see what is possible. Why the Universe hasn't already offered up such elements we just aren't sure. Maybe they decayed a long time ago, or are very rare. Perhaps nobody bothered to ask the Universe in a polite way. Whatever the case may be, we are trying to re-make the missing links.

So, I am proposing a new, more accurate periodic chart: The common light elements forming the big island at one end, then the archipelagos, and finally at the other end, the mainland - the giant neutron star elements. Elements beginning at one gazillion, and their isotopes forming the mass of the continent, with hopefully a long string of islands between them and the tiny hydrogen atom.

:sunny::curtain:

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Hasselhoff's fine where he's at - testing new talent! But perhaps the center of the talent universe he may be, yet the center of the whole Universe? That's a stretch, even in an expanding universe!:laugh3:

 

as an addendum to my original proposal: Since atoms are all about sticky particles that lump together, the new chart could start with the building blocks of those subatomic particles, and go even further back to strings/bubbles/etc.:P

Ok stable heavy elements... I'm not well-versed in particle physics, so I'm wondering a couple of things:

 

1. Does the fact they're stable mean they would not be radioactive?

 

2. How is this information useful? I remember reading somewhere that if you put a pinhead's worth of neutron matter on a scale, it would weigh more than an oil tanker. That's quite interesting... perhaps there are hellish weapons humanity can dream up utilizing these new materials!

i still think it was hasselhoff :P

 

I HATE The Hoff! :veryangry2::veryangry2:

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Quick answer..

 

Hello Jay!

I think they put a time limit on me here, so I'll be brief:

Ok stable heavy elements... I'm not well-versed in particle physics, so I'm wondering a couple of things:

 

1. Does the fact they're stable mean they would not be radioactive?

Answer: They may still loose energy, albeit much less than the star - yes, radioactive, but to what degree? Of course, all elements are, just the so-called "stable isotopes" have incredibly long half-lives.. or so it has been postulated. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neutron_star

 

2. How is this information useful? I remember reading somewhere that if you put a pinhead's worth of neutron matter on a scale, it would weigh more than an oil tanker. That's quite interesting... perhaps there are hellish weapons humanity can dream up utilizing these new materials!

Answer: It may not be of any immediate use, but as enlightened creatures, we should all see the value in new views on the universe. A flower has no intrinsic value, but yet it can brighten our day or our thoughts. Interesting thought about the mass of pure, condensed matter! Perhaps weaponry has been done to the hilt, and now we need to focus on more peaceful uses.. I would think it useful perhaps to understand better nuclear physics, and perhaps synthesize elements in quantities that are stable and useful; mass-producing platinum would be one example - rare, and yet highly useful for everything from catalysts to spark plug tips, one application of the knowledge base might be in creating more of these useful elements.

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After further edification on the subject, I find neutron stars to be far more complicated than I had first imagined. They could be considered still part of a trend in the lumping of subatomic particles together - that could be an even more interesting chart, showing the various ways fundamental particles get lumped together.. Nothing all that new, perhaps I'm not the first to suggest the bizarre ideas as such either. Still, it's intriguing to think of how it all flows together..

The Universe is HASSELHOFF

I don't know why I find this topic interesting. I don't understand a word.

 

Except when you say, we could look at things in a new way, so as to produce 'elements' we can use, minerals with unlimited source, etc.

 

Does it say something about a planet with other living creatures ?

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