Kylie
Defeater of Illogic
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To claim this you would have to know what difference we are talking about. You don't. Your whole basis is how things work now. The things that MAKE atoms join together, repel, or anything else are determined by forces and laws.
And you claim that those laws were different in the past. So, let's say you are right. The laws were different. Atoms that are joined together in our present state, why, maybe they were repelled in the past state! That means that carbon, oxygen, nitrogen and hydrogen wouldn't have joined together they way they do now. That means no carbohydrates. Obviously, a diet with zero carbohydrates (and who knows what other nutrients) means humans would have needed a completely different digestive system.
In this present nature, atoms share electrons and do stuff a certain way. This is all we see now. If they shared differently in the past you would have no way of knowing now.
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There are two basic kinds of bonds - covalent and ionic.
Covalent bonds happen when two atoms share electrons - kind of like 2 atoms holding hands. When at least 2 atoms get together by sharing electrons, they form a molecule.
Ionic bonds happen when one atom gives at least one electron to another atom. Awwww, isn't that nice?!
Picture this: Two atoms sit next to each other. One atom needs an electron, and the other atom has an extra electron. Perfect! Once the electron gets handed over, the atoms are no longer atoms - they're ions, and they each have a charge - one plus (+ positive) and one minus (- negative).
Remember that each atom started with enough (-) electrons to match each (+) proton in its nucleus. The atom that gets an extra electron ends up with a (-) charge and is called an anion (sounds like ann-eye-on). The atom that gives away an electron ends up with a (+) charge and is called a cation (sounds like cat-eye-on).
Now, those (+) and (-) charges have a strong attraction to each other - they sit next to each other and refuse to move. And guess what? That's an ionic bond! - the strong attraction between ions with opposite charges. Table salt is a good example of a common ionic compound. (Table salt is also called sodium chloride.) Click here for even more info.See a 3-D model of the ions here.
http://www.pslc.ws/macrog/kidsmac/atom_str.htm
http://www.pslc.ws/macrog/kidsmac/images/nacltoon.gif
Since you are obviously capable of finding scientific information designed to be understood by people who have a limited scientific understanding, I have to wonder why you don't take advantage of it.
Of course, given that you just cut and pasted a chunk of text, I suspect that you didn't understand that much of it.
I mean what if the little girl atom in the pic was more loving in the former nature and shared a few electrons, or less loving and shared none..or etc etc etc? You can't look just at the happily married atom couple now and say they always were married.
If she was "more loving", then I suppose that she would have a stronger bond with her "boyfriend" atom. That would mean that the molecule the two of them formed would require more energy to split up. Which would mean that certain chemical reactions would never happen. Lots of different chemical reactions, actually. Given that these chemical reactions are required for life to exist, any difference in the way the chemical reactions would mean that life would NOT exist, or at least, exist in a very different way to what we see in the present state.
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