Why hasn’t someone put together a 3d model of the table of elements? It is a model of decay products predicted by the table of elementary particles. Integrated as a 3d mesh it provides simple reference to all predictable stable elements.

Am I left to assume that the expectation is I have to work out all the maths before I can look at the sparkly pictures?

Bummer if so.

> Why hasn’t someone put together a 3d model of the table of elements? It is a model of decay products

Here’s one. Click on each element to view the third dimension. It’s a bit shorthand, for example “A=100” means 100 of the nuclear decays are by alpha particle emissions, from which you immediately know what the decay products are.

Other codes include A = alpha decay, B = beta decay, EC = electron capture, SF = spontaneous fission, NE I think is neutrino emission, IT is ?

Nobody knows for sure which elements are stable. In very many cases an element is unstable with respect to spontaneous fission on a timescale very much longer than the age of the universe.

mollwollfumble said:

> Why hasn’t someone put together a 3d model of the table of elements? It is a model of decay products

Here’s one. Click on each element to view the third dimension. It’s a bit shorthand, for example “A=100” means 100 of the nuclear decays are by alpha particle emissions, from which you immediately know what the decay products are.

Other codes include A = alpha decay, B = beta decay, EC = electron capture, SF = spontaneous fission, NE I think is neutrino emission, IT is ?

Nobody knows for sure which elements are stable. In very many cases an element is unstable with respect to spontaneous fission on a timescale very much longer than the age of the universe.

awww kewl :D

mollwollfumble said:

> Why hasn’t someone put together a 3d model of the table of elements? It is a model of decay products

Here’s one. Click on each element to view the third dimension. It’s a bit shorthand, for example “A=100” means 100 of the nuclear decays are by alpha particle emissions, from which you immediately know what the decay products are.

Other codes include A = alpha decay, B = beta decay, EC = electron capture, SF = spontaneous fission, NE I think is neutrino emission, IT is ?

Nobody knows for sure which elements are stable. In very many cases an element is unstable with respect to spontaneous fission on a timescale very much longer than the age of the universe.

As I understand it density defines the boundaries of stability over mass. Mercury should have stable compounds unique to it’s barycenter?

Postpocelipse said:

Why hasn’t someone put together a 3d model of the table of elements? It is a model of decay products predicted by the table of elementary particles. Integrated as a 3d mesh it provides simple reference to all predictable stable elements.

Am I left to assume that the expectation is I have to work out all the maths before I can look at the sparkly pictures?

Bummer if so.

Instead of bitching about it, why don’t you do it

dv said:

Postpocelipse said:

Why hasn’t someone put together a 3d model of the table of elements? It is a model of decay products predicted by the table of elementary particles. Integrated as a 3d mesh it provides simple reference to all predictable stable elements.

Am I left to assume that the expectation is I have to work out all the maths before I can look at the sparkly pictures?

Bummer if so.

Instead of bitching about it, why don’t you do it

I experience violent vertigo when I construct equations.

Postpocelipse said:

dv said:

Postpocelipse said:

Why hasn’t someone put together a 3d model of the table of elements? It is a model of decay products predicted by the table of elementary particles. Integrated as a 3d mesh it provides simple reference to all predictable stable elements.

Am I left to assume that the expectation is I have to work out all the maths before I can look at the sparkly pictures?

Bummer if so.

Instead of bitching about it, why don’t you do it

I experience violent vertigo when I construct equations.

Like me, but my brain reboots every time when I look at equations.

CrazyNeutrino said:

Postpocelipse said:

dv said:

Instead of bitching about it, why don’t you do it

I experience violent vertigo when I construct equations.

Like me, but my brain reboots every time when I look at equations.

Yeah it’s a wierd duality.