My Element Challenge

[AV1611VET]

The complete list is given.

Try this list:

Timeline of Chemical Element Discoveries

Scroll down to 1928 ... element Rhenium ... and count backwards.

You'll count 88 elements.

 

[AV1611VET]

Maybe we can get a crusade against IUPAC if we just convert these to fake elements: Hindenburgium, Challengium, Thalidomine, Plutonium, etc.

Plutonium isn't a fake element.

 

[Hans Blaster]

Plutonium isn't a fake element.

It's named after a fake planet.

 

[AV1611VET]

It's named after a fake planet.

I could start another challenge thread along this line on the planets, but I think I did that already.

 

[Hans Blaster]

I could start another challenge thread along this line on the planets, but I think I did that already.

Well at least you noticed my fake fake-element.

 

[sjastro]

Try this list:

Timeline of Chemical Element Discoveries

Scroll down to 1928 ... element Rhenium ... and count backwards.

You'll count 88 elements.

Perhaps you should look at your original post again.
If you were sent back to 1930 you would be counting the number of elements believed to be elements at the time.
Your link is not a retrospective view because it only counts the number we know are correct today.
For example the element Florenium "existed" in 1930 but turned out to being a false discovery; element 61 was discovered in 1947 and named Promethium.
Those horrible astronomers with their discovery of Nebulium just miss out on your list, Nebulium was declared a dud by 1927.

 

[sjastro]

It's named after a fake planet.

Everyone knows the IUPAC uses fake planets to name elements.
Neptune is another fake planet and who would have guessed Uranus is fake as well given conspiracy theorists know the origins of the name uranium.

 

[essentialsaltes]

Unsurprisingly, the question is poorly phrased. As Tom Lehrer put it:

These are the only ones of which the news has come to Hahvard
And there may be many others but they haven't been discahvered

 

[Bob Crowley]

There is also darkmaterium, currently invisible.

 

[AV1611VET]

There is also darkmaterium, currently invisible.

I struggled with this passage ...

2 Peter 2:4 For if God spared not the angels that sinned, but cast them down to hell, and delivered them into chains of darkness, to be reserved unto judgment;

... until dark matter was discovered.

 

[Bob Crowley]

To be honest, I don't think "Dark Matter" exists. I suspect there's something wrong with our current model for space-time. I appears time may not even exist for example.

Time May Not Exist, Say Some Physicists and Philosophers | HowStuffWorks

There may be an alternative explanation in a five dimensional universe for example.

Dark matter unknown god Carmelian - creation.com

The equivalent of general relativity in the Vulcan saga, i.e. the new physics required to do away with this whole ‘dark matter fudging’, could well be a new theory such as that proposed by the late Israeli cosmologist/physicist Moshe Carmeli. His 4D space-velocity metric explains the flatness of the universe (the fact that the universe has Euclidean geometry) ... without dark matter or other fudge factors. It also explains perfectly the anomalous galaxy rotation issues mentioned earlier. ... International Journal of Theoretical Physics 45(11):2118–2136, November 2006. ... Just as Einsteinian relativity did to Newtonian physics, Carmelian relativity encompasses today’s physics but explains more data.

I don't have a problem with God chaining up demons in Hell. Hell is spiritual and not earthly any more than Christ's kingdom is of this world.

Spiritual beings would require spiritual chains or their equivalent. Our science is not in a position to speculate on the nature of Heaven, Hell or Purgatory. It's limited to this world. When scientists start talking metaphysics, they're talking philosophy, not science.

 

[Hans Blaster]

To be honest, I don't think "Dark Matter" exists. I suspect there's something wrong with our current model for space-time. I appears time may not even exist for example.

Time May Not Exist, Say Some Physicists and Philosophers | HowStuffWorks

There may be an alternative explanation in a five dimensional universe for example.

Dark matter unknown god Carmelian - creation.com



I don't have a problem with God chaining up demons in Hell. Hell is spiritual and not earthly any more than Christ's kingdom is of this world.

Spiritual beings would require spiritual chains or their equivalent. Our science is not in a position to speculate on the nature of Heaven, Hell or Purgatory. It's limited to this world. When scientists start talking metaphysics, they're talking philosophy, not science.

Don't worry. Most of us don't care for "metaphysics" and some of us despise it.

 

[FrumiousBandersnatch]

To be honest, I don't think "Dark Matter" exists. I suspect there's something wrong with our current model for space-time. I appears time may not even exist for example.

Time May Not Exist, Say Some Physicists and Philosophers | HowStuffWorks

There may be an alternative explanation in a five dimensional universe for example.

Dark matter unknown god Carmelian - creation.com



I don't have a problem with God chaining up demons in Hell. Hell is spiritual and not earthly any more than Christ's kingdom is of this world.

Spiritual beings would require spiritual chains or their equivalent. Our science is not in a position to speculate on the nature of Heaven, Hell or Purgatory. It's limited to this world. When scientists start talking metaphysics, they're talking philosophy, not science.

Depends what you mean by 'exists'. There was a pop-sci article not so long ago questioning whether reality 'exists'

 

[Larniavc]

You are sent back in time to 1930, knowing everything you know today.

You are in a classroom taking a test, and the question is:

How many elements are there?

1. 33
2. 75
3. 88
4. Other _____

How would you answer?

118.

Possibly 119.

 

[durangodawood]

It's named after a fake planet.

Unlike Uranium and Mercury which are named after real planets.

 

[Aryeh Jay]

There are five elements, Earth, Air, Fire, Water, and Ether.

 

[sjastro]

Unlike Uranium and Mercury which are named after real planets.

Mercury is also a fake planet as the element Mercurochrome is named after it.

 

[Astrophile]

Unlike Uranium and Mercury which are named after real planets.

Neptunium (element 93) is named after the planet Neptune, tellurium (element 52) is named after the Earth, selenium (element 34) is named after the Moon, cerium (element 58) is named after the dwarf planet Ceres, and palladium (element 46) is named after the asteroid Pallas.

 

[durangodawood]

Mercury is also a fake planet as the element Mercurochrome is named after it.

But its "certified"!

 

[durangodawood]

Neptunium (element 93) is named after the planet Neptune, tellurium (element 52) is named after the Earth, selenium (element 34) is named after the Moon, cerium (element 58) is named after the dwarf planet Ceres, and palladium (element 46) is named after the asteroid Pallas.

Embarrassing, but I was joking and had no idea uranium was really named after the planet.