Is the modern periodic table a perfect version?
The modern periodic table has reached its current status through many years of work by various scientists. As elements occurring in nature were discovered they were put into their niche in the periodic table. However in recent years, as opposed to discovering elements, scientists have now begun to create them in laboratories. While some expect this creation of further heavier elements to be an endless process, this might not truly be so. These heavier elements are found to be quite unstable due to their inability to hold together and thus the tendency to spontaneously decay releasing copious amounts of energy through a process known as nuclear fission. Thus, theoretically speaking, there will come a limit beyond which any heavier atoms cannot be created. Thus while there are still elements being added to the periodic table, we can expect a limit to this in the future where the periodic table will be completed by the logic that no more elements can be created by nature or man.
The modern periodic table has reached its current status through many years of work by various scientists. As elements occurring in nature were discovered they were put into their niche in the periodic table. However in recent years, as opposed to discovering elements, scientists have now begun to create them in laboratories. While some expect this creation of further heavier elements to be an endless process, this might not truly be so. These heavier elements are found to be quite unstable due to their inability to hold together and thus the tendency to spontaneously decay releasing copious amounts of energy through a process known as nuclear fission. Thus, theoretically speaking, there will come a limit beyond which any heavier atoms cannot be created. Thus while there are still elements being added to the periodic table, we can expect a limit to this in the future where the periodic table will be completed by the logic that no more elements can be created by nature or man.