New Discovery: Administratium
Investigators at a major US research university recently discovered the
heaviest element known to science. The element, tentatively named
administratium, has no protons or electrons and thus has an atomic number of 0.
However, it does have one neutron, 125 assistant neutrons, 75 vice
neutrons and 111 assistant vice neutrons, which gives it an atomic mass
of 312. These 312 particles are held together by a force that involves the
continuous exchange of meson-like particles called morons. It is
also surrounded by vast quantities of lepton-like particles called peons. Since
it has no electrons, administratium is inert. However, it can be detected
chemically as it impedes every reaction it comes in contact with.
According to the discoverers, a minute
amount of administratium causes one reaction to take over four days
to complete when it would normally have occurred in less than a second.
Administratium has a normal half-life of approximately three years, at which
time it does not decay, but instead undergoes a reorganization in which a
portion of the assistant neutrons, vice neutrons and assistant vice neutrons
exchange places. In fact, an administratium sample's mass actually INCREASES
over time, since with each reorganization some of the morons inevitably become
neutrons, forming new isotopes.
This characteristic of moron
promotion leads some scientists to speculate that perhaps administratium
is spontaneously formed whenever morons reach a certain quantity in
concentration. This hypothetical quantity is referred to as "critical
morass"
- Contributed by Ms Vandana Nanda, FA&CAO/HQ/SER.