Читать книгу Modern Alchemy and the Philosopher's Stone - Wilfried B. Holzapfel - Страница 5

At the beginning there was a big bang, which generated the Hydrogen

and little Helium, that is true, was in this early stardust brew.

Some dust condensed by gravity and stars appeared with density

just high enough for the ignition of nuclear fusion with the provision

for many more new elements, but these were not the final ends!

The heavy ones had still to wait for supernovae, which came late

as star explosions, an event, which is considered as the end

of all the element creation, we only miss still the equation

explaining how the numbers came to fit all this! This is the game!

With all the elements now here, some order makes this world more clear.

Wise man produced a Periodic Table with 8 Main Groups which do enable

to show some common properties in 8 columns, but there are these

remaining elements between with 10 at first and then 14,

Transition Metals, 3 rows of 10, and Lanthanoides, with 14 then.

The Actinoides, we will not need, they are unstable, well indeed! -

And still more order is present, if you look carefully at the end!

You can first see right on the top the Hydrogen and if you stop,

you see for Helium a slit just wide enough to give a fit

for the Rare Gases as column on top with our Helium.

The other columns broad and wide include the Main Groups not so tide

as all the lower sections squeezed between for the Transition Metals in this scheme.

And in the column number 3 the Rare Earth Metals you can see.

The chemists now look for reactions. The physicists see other actions!

They change the temperature and pressure and keep in mind, they have to measure

the properties in all these states and some results lead to debates

before one reaches the consensus on these results, which are immense

in these domains, which reach as far, as the interior of some star!

Much more ideas have been cast into this figure, but at last

a book can only give to you for this artwork the final clue!