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Re: When Will We Reach the End of the Periodic Table?

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Subject Re: When Will We Reach the End of the Periodic Table?
Date Sat, 23 Jan 2016 16:35:47 +1100
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On 23/01/2016 10:35 AM, Yousuf Khan wrote:
> On 21/01/2016 8:24 AM, HVAC wrote:
>> Any observation or experiment which indicates something moving faster
>> than light speed needs to be discarded forthwith.
>>
>> If you understand physics and relativity, you know why this must be so.
>>
>> Sorry kooks. Nothing in our universe can travel faster than light
>
> Well, of course, that's why we may be nearing the end of the periodic
> table, as some of the electrons in the outer shells may be so far out
> that they are already travelling at relativistic speeds, so go any
> further and you need super-luminal electrons just to stay in orbit
> around them which is impossible.
>

Or trying to apply the classical model just doesn't work at all up there.

Sylvia.

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When Will We Reach the End of the Periodic Table? Yousuf Khan <bbbl67@spammenot.yahoo.com> - 2016-01-21 07:56 -0500
  When Will We Reach the End of the Periodic Table? HVAC <mr.hvac@gmail.com> - 2016-01-21 05:24 -0800
    Re: When Will We Reach the End of the Periodic Table? Yousuf Khan <bbbl67@spammenot.yahoo.com> - 2016-01-22 18:35 -0500
      Re: When Will We Reach the End of the Periodic Table? Sylvia Else <sylvia@not.at.this.address> - 2016-01-23 16:35 +1100
        Re: When Will We Reach the End of the Periodic Table? Yousuf Khan <bbbl67@spammenot.yahoo.com> - 2016-01-23 02:27 -0500

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