Journey in an atom (small)

I found an atom and studied its surface very closely. I saw that the surface had many circular trains of photons.

I prodded a bit too much and as if the atom was alive and wanted to protect itself, it ejected the circular train at me. As it was ejecting, I was able to feel the waves it was generating. It was like a rocket or a very angry snake. I followed it.

It formed a vortex of waves around it much like a bar magnet. I sprinkled a hand full of imaginary iron filings at it and was able to see that what was ejected at me was the circular train that I poked at. It was spinning so fast that it formed a tornado, I sprinkled some imaginary iron filings as it was coming out of the atom, It was exactly like it was an invisible very long bar magnet with north and south poles at each end. The head was the north pole sucking in waves and the tail was the south pole blowing the waves.

When it was finally free from the atom, it started to spin first like a propeller and then like a sphere. With its head in the center and its tail pointing out, it turned into a sphere blowing out waves in all direction. Then I realized that it was a charged up free electron.

I went back to study the circular train off photons on the surface of the atom. They were not charged like the free electrons, but confined to the surface of the atom. They were confined electrons. Every time a circling electron was disturbed and lost one of its photons, it dropped closer to the center.

Every time a free photon crashed into an electron and got coupled to the train to make it longer, it rose farther from the center.

I dived deep into the atom and saw that the rotating heads of the electrons were kept in place on the surface by their tails. They were like boats anchored to the center.

When I reached the center, I found the anchors were rotating heads much like the heads of electrons but much smaller as their circling train of photons was much shorter. The wagons being pulled were much higher and much shorter than those of the electrons.

Their tails were pointing up and they were twisted to the tails of the electrons they were anchoring. I recognize them as protons. I sprinkled my imaginary iron dust at their rotating heads facing inward. Their heads registered as north poles, just like the heads of electrons. Their tails were twisted with the tails of the electrons they anchored to the surface. The protons were swaying and purring like kittens except one that was fidgety and excited and growling like it was in heat. I followed its waggling tail that was just as long as the tail of the electron and reached near to the surface. As if it was searching for the electron it once anchored to the atom. The waggling tail was emitting waves that blew me away.

I was blown to a very large atom with very many electrons on its surface. I explored the center to find the very many neutrons that I learned from my physics courses that must be there to hold all the protons together which held the electrons in anchor. The protons would other wise repel due to their charged up heads. Each neutron looked like bundles of tightly wound up string not emanating any magnetic waves.



I prodded one and it exploded and tore out of the atom like a cannon ball splitting the atom in two smaller ones.

It then rammed into another big fat atom and split that atom into 2 smaller atoms and released some more neutron. Fortunately they did not hit any more of those very big and fat atoms that explode so easily.

I followed a neutron for 15 minutes and saw how it slowly unraveled like it was a strand of DNA. It separated into 2 strands the same length but with 2 with different heads.



I recognized the immediately as being the same as the head on a proton and the bigger head on an electron. The tails began to be stiff and erect as it was a balloon being blown up. They behaved just like very long bar magnets.

The charged electron started to spin around with its tail outward forming a sphere with south poles smeared all over.

The charged proton also started to spin but it had its tail pointing inward and the head outward forming a sphere with north pole smeared all over.

They bounced around like billiard balls.

I picked up the buzzing electron and felt the wave of a gently breeze blowing out from all directions. I gave the ball a squeeze and felt how the wave squirted out far away. I saw another free electron fly by and managed to catch it. I tried to put the two electrons together but they just blew each other away.

I followed the free proton bouncing around and eventually it was attracted by a free electron who was most happy to join hands and coupling and settle down to become a more stable neutral hydrogen atom.

By chance, another solitary hydrogen atom came by and the two bumped into each other and stayed together. They formed the stable hydrogen molecule. The two atoms joined together by sharing their electrons.
Other hydrogen atoms wondered into stars not to just join hands and become molecules, but to be forged together to become permanent atoms in their own right. To see for myself, I took two hydrogen atoms and banged them together. They snapped together and fused with such a force and made such a noise that it nearly broke my hands and ears. I had a new atom in my sore hands that I knew was the helium atom. The two atoms fused together by sharing their protons and released a great amount of energy.

Helium was banged around as well and gave birth to heavier and heavier atoms. With all that banging, atoms supporting life were born. Even heavier atoms, those that are so heavy and fat that they explode and spread their neutrons like spores to make more baby hydrogen atoms.

Next, I wanted to find some carbon atoms that life was based on. I found many swimming about in lines like strings of thread. On closer examination, the strings were beads of carbon atoms with their 4 electrons forming the beautiful and symmetrical tetrahedron shape. One bead stood out as being rather unsymmetrical. It had a somewhat protruding electron. I recognized it as a nitrogen atom.

Then by chance a gamma ray hit the protruding electron with such force and in such an angle, that the protruding electron was hammered deep out of sight into the nitrogen making it look like a carbon.

I followed the disappearing wounded electron and saw how like an accordion it was being squeezed into the center with its coupled proton and being deflated into a new neutron, like a bear curling up to hibernate.
Hibernation time is different for each nitrogen, but for large numbers, the probability is well defined and called the half life. The half life for nitrogen is about 5,000 years. Half of all the remaining wounded nitrogen will recover within about 5,000 years. Every 5,000 years the number of wounded nitrogen is reduced by half.

Then by chance, the wounded electron turned into the ticking neutron just a moment ago started to unwind from its wound up state. Its electron protruded proudly out showing that it was once again a nitrogen.