Atomic/Nuclear/Particle Physics
1. Thought anti-particles are science fiction
2. Thought electrons are hard spheres
3. Thought an atom is different than an element
4. Thought all electrons in an atom are identical
5. Thought neutrons have negative charges
6. Thought fusion and fission are the same thing
7. Thought everything has mass
8. Thought all elementary particles are hard spheres
9. Thought electrons can exist in any atomic orbits
10. Thought energy can not be created or destroyed
11. Thought spontaneous pair production is physically impossible
12. Thought elements are formed in places other than stars
13. Thought all isotopes are radioactive
14. Thought electrons exist in orbits like planetary orbits
15. Thought protons and electrons are the same except for charge
16. Thought anti-particles could not exist in the solar system
17. Thought fusion readily occurs at any temperature
18. Thought electron orbits are perfectly circular
19. Thought mass/matter are conserved
20. Thought nothing is smaller than an atom
21. Thought mass cannot be converted to energy
22. Thought the only evidence for neutrinos came from experiments in the polar regions
23. Thought electrons can't gain energy
24. Thought there is no possibility of neutrino mass
25. Thought electrons, protons, and neutrons always existed
26. Thought all elements formed on Earth
27. Thought ions have a different number of protons and neutrons
28. Thought electrons are not particles
29. Thought elements have other differences beyond proton number
30. Thought isotopes have different number of protons
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