UnFuckingLikelium (Ufl)

Egads, the papers are full of reports on the inclusion of four new elements into the periodic table.

“Such is the lot of the modern-day chemist: you wait ages for a new element to turn up and then four are discovered at once.”

Firstly, these elements weren’t discovered and they don’t exist in nature. They were invented very much on purpose by engineers posing as physicists.

Secondly, you’d hope that most chemists don’t give a shit because they know that these elements have a half life of around a fempto-second and will never end up in any sort of molecule.

But not to worry, there might be a pool of stability for the as yet uninvented elements 120 or 126.

Or maybe not.

My guess is that these elements would be floating around naturally if this was the case. Nature has means of focusing energy somewhat better than any bloody linear accelerator dreamt up by engineers.

But I do have to admire this great big Ponzi scheme for getting billions in research funding. Who said scientists are crap at marketing?

I just wonder why the inmates are so fixated on spending their lives and our money chasing ephemeral radioactive decay signatures?

It’s possibly true that never was so much effort expended for so little gain.