On 9/27/2018 9:49 PM, Jerry LR Chandler wrote:
Mother Nature created 92 chemical elements.
Fine. That just means that you only need a small subset of the
integers to count the elements. But it's nice to know that we'll
never run out of numbers to count the national debt.
Actually, spectroscopic analyses of supernovae show evidence
that elements with an atomic number greater than 92 are created.
But they decay quickly.
Uranium 238 has a long half life, so the earth still has quite a
lot left from the supernova that created the cloud that collapsed
to form our solar system. But eventually, it too will disappear.
The notion of a chemical table of elements is remote from the
notion of the simple ordering relations of the integers.
No problem. Pure mathematics has infinitely many theories.
If you only want a restricted version, it has that also.
John
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