Ah, now the quantim world makes sense...

Mystery Behind Quantum Theory & Albert Einstein, Science Documentary,

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  A very long time ago I got wrapped up in thinking about what makes the atomic world work the way it does.  To me,  it looked like,  any supportive environmental condition would need some sort of super properties that I could imagine,  but hardly think of as real.  I mean, somethings would actually need to be able to be in two places at once, and/or be able to communicate instantly over relatively vast distances.  It all seems to be such very strange musings that I can hardly fault myself for putting such thinking aside. After all,  I had no evidence and none of it made any "real world" sense,  since we had no quantum mechanics at that time.

Now,  however,  things have changed.  So now it  is entirely reasonable to think of the needs of the world that provides the properties we observe in the atomic world.  How else, for example,  would a catalyst,  speed or slow a reaction without taking part in it?  It must somehow "communicate" it's presence over vast subatomic distances,  to the far flung atoms of the elements that are involved in the reaction.

So,  in my theory at least,  atoms, protons and neutrons are sampling, swapping and detecting quantum particles all the time,  and that is what gives them the properties they exhibit.  If you simply look at the periodic table you see,  it does not explain why,  atoms of various quantities of protons and neutrons have such an assortment of different properties,  based not on the simple numerical count of particles in the nucleus or even the electrons they hold.  Mere numerical calculations do not explain hardness, density, corrosion resistance etc.,  thus these properties must come from the supportive field below them,  which is the quantam field.  And that field needs some very strange properties,  to support the elements as it does.

Perhaps,  then,  it will make sense to add another dimension to the periodic table, but it won't be easy to figure out how to do that.  The atomic structure was the easy one,  the quantum one is giving scientist nightmares.  First we'll need to identify as many of the quantum particles as we can,  then we need to figure out the quantum composition of each elements protons and neutrons and that is only the start of it.  Because the next step will be trying to figure out which combinations yield which properties and attempting to determine what the rules are.  As we already know so far,  nature doesn't always create everything that can be created,  and/or, even if it did,  some of natures creations have too short a life to have survived for us to study them.  Thus,  it may very well be possible to actually create forms of matter that,  either never existed before,  or that never lived long enough for us to have seen them.  Those atoms may have some very very strange and/or useful properties themselves.

Think of elements whose half lives are only a few thousands or hundreds of thousands of years.  In the 13.5 billion years since the "big bang" they'd have been gone in a relative flash.  The imagination goes wild thinking about the kinds of properties such elements could have.

I believe that one of the most useful keys we have to open these doors is, the probability that each of these quantam particles,  when they transition to energy,  releases a discrete quantity of energy unique to each particle.  Of course,  that leaves us with a Pythagorean problem.  After determining the total energy released by an atomic fusion or fission,  we will then be required to try to work backwards,  to determine what combination of quantum particles transitioned to create the total observed.  A truly horrendous task even with today's super computers to help, but probably well worth the effort.