Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL) is setting its sights on creating element 120 as part of a new US effort to discover the first elements in row eight of the periodic table. The move follows the breakdown of the US–Russian partnership, which had previously discovered the five heaviest elements, following the Russian invasion of Ukraine.
Yo, didn’t they just find some asteroid that scans too heavy for current elements?
Seems like things are starting to heat up in this area all of a sudden…
…And I don’t mean this at all, but between all of this prep work setting up us discovering new elements, plus the sudden influx of alien talk to congress, etc…like…if I was a conspiracy theorist my head would be spinning right now with the possibilities!
Conspiracy theorists always see connections where there’s nothing. Reality doesn’t need to conveniently align to make that possible.
I mean, we’ve been discovering new elements for a while now. Bobby Brocolli has a great video series on the hunt for the elements.
Oh for sure! I’m a bit of a scientist myself, and get how it works, but an entire new row of elements would be quite the achievement!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extended_periodic_table