• Element 117: Scientists discover new super-heavy element
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Fuck off we have to call it Australium, build life support machines with it and start a war in the badlands lads.
I think feynman needs an element.. feynium
-snip, keeping clocking me if you wish-
[QUOTE=Handsome Matt;44718860]Care to give a reason?[/QUOTE][url]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Island_of_stability#Half-lives_of_the_highest-numbered_elements[/url] Depending on how stable elements in the island of stability actually are (whether it's minutes or years), we're likely not close yet, so don't expect scientists to be synthesising fictional stable superheavy elements like naquadah yet.
And if the island of stability is proven to be barely stable at all, we should look towards creating heavier elements using more than mere protons and neutrons. Maybe working out the right combination of heavier quarks to create heavier baryons (maybe 1 Charm, 2 Strange for a "meganeutron") will come in handy for forging elements heavier than those few on the island.
iumium
[QUOTE=devcon;44718208][IMG]http://i.imgur.com/AJTK3ZL.png?3?9701[/IMG][/QUOTE] I do Chemistry at the same uni that Poliakoff teaches at; he's actually a pretty dull lecturer after a while.
iumium ( pronounced yum yum )
Name it Edisonium to troll tesla-people
[QUOTE=Handsome Matt;44718860]Care to give a reason?[/QUOTE] The region has been mathematically predicted from chemical/physical observations.. we have a rough idea of where it lays already. 117 has landed precisely where expected, and chemists aren't surprised. It could be argued that "All science is a bridge", but, the article makes out like it is some fundamental discovery, when it isn't. For laughs, as I started to reply to this post 'Halo Theme Mjölnir Mix' by 'Martin O'Donnell & Michael Salvatori' hopped on iTunes. Make of it what you will..
Bungieum
I'm surprised no one suggested elerium yet.
If we're suggesting names, how about a famous physicist who seems to have slipped out of the public eye recently, though he was very famous when alive. Feynium, after [URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feynman"]this badass dude.[/URL] Guy had the idea of nanotechnology.
Hitlerium
[QUOTE=Terminutter;44720159]If we're suggesting names, how about a famous physicist who seems to have slipped out of the public eye recently,[/QUOTE] Since when has Feynman slipped out of the public eye? I mean, he's not alive and therefore not as popular, but he's very often quoted and referred to. It's not like he's just some obscure physicist, he's still one of the best known who has ever lived. If you want great physicists who the public never talks about, look at dudes like Dirac. Feynman was indisputably a great physicist, but it's hard to pretend he wasn't mostly famous because he was an interesting character. I doubt most people even know what the hell he contributed to physics.
Probably not as heavy as your mom
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umbongotheydrinkitinthecongonium
element117ium
[QUOTE=JohnnyMo1;44720521]I doubt most people even know what the hell he contributed to physics.[/QUOTE] QED; also, he did the number crunching to find the critical mass needed for a nuclear weapon. Not to mention his contributions to QCD.. also, that whole artistic representation of elementary particle interactions. But, then again, I'm not most people... ..also, I have a great love for Dirac, and his mathematical conclusion that anti-matter existed, without [I]a priori [/I]experimentation.
[QUOTE=Bradyns;44721430]QED; also, he did the number crunching to find the critical mass needed for a nuclear weapon. Not to mention his contributions to QCD.. also, that whole artistic representation of elementary particle interactions. But, then again, I'm not most people... ..also, I have a great love for Dirac, and his mathematical conclusion that anti-matter existed, without [I]a priori [/I]experimentation.[/QUOTE] And the path-integral formulation of QM. And a host of other things. But as you said, you're not most people anyway.
[QUOTE=DrKukri;44719865]I do Chemistry at the same uni that Poliakoff teaches at; he's actually a pretty dull lecturer after a while.[/QUOTE] LIES! There's nothing bad to say about my precious professor, Poliakoff! He's a national treasure, damnit.
I bet it has a half life of a nanosecond
[QUOTE=Sgt-NiallR;44721782]LIES! There's nothing bad to say about my precious professor, Poliakoff! He's a national treasure, damnit.[/QUOTE] He's a fun guy, and makes some jokes from time to time, but he can just go on and on, as I guess everyone can. Some of the other guys on Periodic Videos are better lecturers.
Putinium
Damn it, I know I'm overweight, but 'super-heavy' is just mean!
[QUOTE=Fatfatfatty;44721892]I bet it has a half life of a nanosecond[/QUOTE] A Half Life of Three nanoseconds. :v:
Poopium.
[QUOTE=MrInformative;44724645]A Half Life of Three nanoseconds. :v:[/QUOTE] Half-life-3-confirmedium
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