A Brief History of Time Nobel Prizewinner Bill Phillips (#265)
Into the Impossible With Brian Keating
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What Is the Material Inside an Atomic Nucleus That's Not Quarks?
An atom is not a vacuum and void as Lucretius told us 2300 years ago. Why do they always show lithium and always has three electrons like lithium gets unfair attention? It's because if we're lithium you wouldn't be able to have three electrons in the same orbital. Interestingly, with a sort of a bore summer fell picture right which so wrong. And yet so powerful that we still keep it in our mind right and bore one the Nobel Prize for that.
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