Uploaded November 2023 | Updated September 2026, 7 hours ago
In this video, I explain why I think my periodic table is better than the normal one.
9/14/2024: It might be that the logical extension of the periodic table to antimatter elements actually should give them a negative atomic number (the negative of the antiproton count). This makes sense because colliding an atom and anti-atom leaves the difference element behind. The antineutron would then just be a different isotope of element 0 ( n-(-1), as opposed to n-1), which independently makes sense because both atoms don't have any protons or antiprotons. Further, the idea of a collision yielding the difference element would (in this convention) imply the existence of a negative neutron count, and therefore a negative mass number. One must simply remember that a negative mass number doesn't mean negative mass. It simply records the fact that an anti-atom can destroy that amount of mass on contact with an atom (that number of nucleons anyway). It is worth noting that which set of elements gets the minus sign is technically arbitrary. Anti getting minus is simply in keeping with tradition.
The actual periodic table shape would be that in the video for non-negative elements, but would have an upside-down and reflected non-positive sector that overlaps only at the neutron corners.
In this video, I explain why I think my periodic table is better than the normal one.
9/14/2024: It might be that the logical extension of the periodic table to antimatter elements actually should give them a negative atomic number (the negative of the antiproton count). This makes sense because colliding an atom and anti-atom leaves the difference element behind. The antineutron would then just be a different isotope of element 0 ( n-(-1), as opposed to n-1), which independently makes sense because both atoms don't have any protons or antiprotons. Further, the idea of a collision yielding the difference element would (in this convention) imply the existence of a negative neutron count, and therefore a negative mass number. One must simply remember that a negative mass number doesn't mean negative mass. It simply records the fact that an anti-atom can destroy that amount of mass on contact with an atom (that number of nucleons anyway). It is worth noting that which set of elements gets the minus sign is technically arbitrary. Anti getting minus is simply in keeping with tradition.
The actual periodic table shape would be that in the video for non-negative elements, but would have an upside-down and reflected non-positive sector that overlaps only at the neutron corners.
