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    Decoding the Periodic Table
    Decoding the Periodic Table
    Decoding the Periodic Table
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    Decoding the Periodic Table

    By Jurjen Van Van der Wal

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    Decoding the Periodic Table

    In the year 1809 Russian Chemist Dimitri Ivanovich Mendeleev published the first Chemical Periodic Table of the Elements. Since then scientists developed a theory that every element consists of a tightly packed mass of protons and neutrons which is surrounded by concentric spheres which are occupied by orbiting electrons.

    This concept is known as the Standard Model, but it is flawed, because it cannot accommodate gravity. For many decades researchers, including this author in the late 1960's, tried to formulate theories that in a comprehensive way would unite all physical designs and phenomena under a common denominator, but to no avail. The String Theory is one of them but it has found no success.

    In 1989 the author of the book made a fresh start again with the notion that particles such as the proton, neutron and electron would not be round, but that they would have straight-lined, square or cubic configurations, because the Periodic Table's had quadratic numbers in their quantities of elements, such as:

    Period 1 ? with 2 elements: 2 = 2x12, Periods 2 & 3 ? 8 = 2 x 22,
    Periods 4 & 5 ? 18 = 2 x 32 and Period 6 & 7 ? 32 2 x 42.

    This might indicate square structural relationships, lets give it a try! It worked, it took 20 years to do it, it was a fascinating journey, falling down and getting up again and again, working without a computer, with all figures hand-drawn, and discovering that the forces that make the nuclear mass of the neutron do that by multiplying two force-filled cubic volumes, as in [3F]6 = [3F x 3F x 3] X [3F x 3F x 3F] = 1838.2656.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisheriUniverse
    Release dateJun 16, 2010
    ISBN9781440186738
    Decoding the Periodic Table
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    Jurjen Van Van der Wal

    Born in the Netherlands in 1929 and emigrated to Southern California in 1958, I became a Mechanical Engineer and designed automotive assembly lines for Chrysler and Ford. I did structural analysis for Boeing's very first 747 project, and designed and managed material handling projects. Analyzing the Periodic Table has been a hobby for the past 40 years.

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      Decoding the Periodic Table - Jurjen Van Van der Wal

      DECODING

      THE PERIODIC TABLE

      INTRODUCTION

      During my days in college in the Netherlands I was always intrigued by the large chart with the Periodic Table of Elements that hung on the wall of the Chemistry Room.

      On the very last day of school I asked my teacher if there was some sort of particular physical structure of the assembly of all of those elements together.

      In response she said that she did not know what that structure was, but then with chalk she wrote on the blackboard the number of elements in each period:

      Period 1: 2x12=2, Period 2::2x22=8, Period 3: 2x22=8

      Period 4: 2x32-18, Period 5: 2x32-18, Period 6: 2x42=32.

      It was that quadratic relationship that really struck me. I never forgot that. Decades later I experimented on paper with various approaches such as concentric spheres in the late 1960’s that one way or the other might have quadratic relationships. But that whole effort got nowhere.

      In 1989 I started yet another effort when, like a bolt of lightening out of the sky, my mind got the notion that nature’s particles such as proton, neutron, etc. were made with straight lines only and there would be no curvatures anywhere, and that would mean that there would be no concentric spheres. It was a revolutionary thought, to say the least. Had anyone ever considered that there would be straight lines only, and no curves of any kind?

      What made me take it serious was the conviction that the Physical Sciences around the world seemed to be getting absolutely nowhere with their all out attempts to put several new theories together, and even now they are still not sure if that 8 billion dollar new Large Hadron Collider on the Swiss/French border will produce the hoped-for results.

      I have worked all alone on this, it was a great joy to work on it, sometimes feeing that I was all by myself far out there in the universe, asking the protons and neutrons in my brain to tell me what they looked like, and eventually, I think, they did. The result is this book.

      Date: March 2010                                                           Copyright© 2009

                                                                                              Jurjen van der Wal

      Information Sources

      By personally not being involved with any physical sciences institute that does research in Particle Physics, it was often not easy to find helpful information that might be useful in this quest to formulate a new and very unconventional theory of particle physics.

      However, this dearth of information actually was an advantage, because the lack of a history in this novel straight-line approach towards a new theory would not be influenced by some else’s efforts that might have contaminated my mind as it entered the territory of this new approach. In the meantime I stayed in touch with the latest development in physics by subscribing to publications such as Scientific American, Science News, Discover, SEED, American Scientist, etc., which have found many eager subscribers in the general public which are fascinated by the as yet unsolved riddles of this universe that is our home.

      This theory owes everything to Sir Isaac Newton, 1642-1727, Scientist, who in 1686 published Principia Mathematica with the following Laws:

      1. An object that is moving steadily will remain in that same state till a force is applied to it.

      2. The acceleration of an object depends on two things: the object’s mass and the force acting upon it.

      3. For every action there is an equal and opposite reaction.

      In this theory:

      Newton’s 3rd Law is everywhere.

      The Motivation

      Not a day seems to go by without one way or the other reading in a newspaper or seeing on TV something about energy, dark matter, the big bang, black holes, as well as the search for elusive particles, everywhere around the world.

      What we are not seeing is that we don’t seem to get any closer to uncover any of those many unknowns in physics that control all facets of our lives. Billions of dollars and euros are being spent, and we are getting nowhere.

      This tells me that something is drastically wrong with the approach that scientists have employed to find their evasive targets.

      What I do know for sure is that the Periodic Table of Elements can be seen as a combination of the Rosetta Stone and the hieroglyphs of Egypt, which in this case needs to be dissected and analyzed as to why it has those sequences of its quadratic and therefore square relationships in its periods. What does that actually tell us, and how can we exploit that?

      This theory has an answer to that with Decoding the Periodic Table, which in my opinion fits within all of the parameters that it needs to comply with in order to ensure its validity.

      DECODING

      THE PERIODIC TABLE

      Abstract

      For the past 100 years countless efforts by physicists to find a theory that would explain all of the interactions between chemicals as well as their transformations into other forms have failed. What this continuing failure means is that somehow, somewhere something must be drastically wrong with the method and/or the ground rules that are being deployed to attack the problem.

      A _ _ In this theory the make-up of the Periodic Table is the basis for all that is physics-related such as the actual shape of particles like the neutron, proton, electron and neutrino.

      The Periodic Table’s series of element quantities show a quadratic relationship:

      Period 1, from Hydrogen to Helium          , has 2, or 2x12 elements.

      Period 2, from Helium to Neon                 , has 8, or 2x22 elements.

      Period 3, from Neon to Argon                   , has 8, or 2x22 elements.

      Period 4, from Argon to Krypton               , has 18, or 2x32 elements.

      Period 5, from Krypton to Xenon              , has 18, or 2x32 elements.

      Period 6, from Xenon to Radon                 , has 32, or 2x42 elements.

      Period 7, from Radon to ‘ZZZ’ ???             , (has 32, or 2x42 elements).

      In support of the above: There is a 90° angle between the electric and magnetic components of an electromagnetic wave, such as light.

      These quadratic expressions mean that there actually might be particles with square structures and straight lines, but no spheres or curved blobs, nor those wiggly rings of the string theory. This straight line idea could possibly be applied to Particle Physics, and why not, everything else had failed.

      B _ _ This is a Theory of Architectural Design of which its basic building block is a square that serves as the common base for 2 pyramids with 45 degree slopes, one above and one below it. Those pyramids consist of an assembly of small cubes which represent a force that is perpendicular to one of the cube’s sides. These cube’s forces at each of the double pyramid’s four sides point in four different directions, North, South, East, West, as an easy marker, and no, it does not mean magnetism, just direction. These cubes are connected to each other at their corners, and are separated by vacant cubic spaces. The overall effect of such a double pyramid assembly of forces equals zero.

      C _ _ The next step is to put the square base of one of those double pyramids down in a horizontal position, and then make a plus sign by attaching in a horizontal manner an identical double pyramid square to its North, East, South and West side. Next: Fold up the plus sign’s North and West

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