Current Events > The Elements #137: Feynmanium

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https://www.chemedx.org/blog/search-final-element
No, this does not exist yet.
137 was where Richard Feynman calculated would be the last element where the 1s electrons would travel at barely under the speed of light, thus #138 would be impossible.

Newer math suggests elements may end at #173, instead.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extended_periodic_table#Elements_above_the_atomic_number_137

Richard Feynman, on why the Challenger exploded:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6TInWPDJhjU

There's a joke that when Feynman died, God allowed him to ask any one question. He asked why the fine structure constant wasn't exactly 1/137. God starts writing down the maths and as Feynman looks at it, he points to one specific part and goes "that's it. There's the mistake you made"

teep_ posted...

There's a joke that when Feynman died, God allowed him to ask any one question. He asked why the fine structure constant wasn't exactly 1/137. God starts writing down the maths and as Feynman looks at it, he points to one specific part and goes "that's it. There's the mistake you made"

And then God said "That's why Jesus exists"