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Atoms are the building blocks of life. Every living thing is built of atoms. So how do atoms make, say a cat? an atom does not have a brain??? how does it decide im going to pair with those atoms and we will make a cell, that will create tissue, that will make an organ wich will belong to a cat??? What governs what atoms do? It cant be a happy mistake that they randomly bumb into eachother and BOOM a cat or WOW a tree. If it was a mistake then there could only be 1 . . . |
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You know this forum is for 15 years old and up only? |
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It's not a mistake. It's called the laws of physics, particularly the electromagnetic force which is almost completely responsible for chemical interactions, and statistical thermodynamics. which governs what chemical states are explored in a system. |
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Yes, chemical bonding occurs due to the nature of the atoms. In particular, it is controlled by the negative electrons which orbit those atoms, and the positive charges of the atoms. The number of electrons and the way they are arranged around the positive nucleus, and the attraction between these positive and negative charges, is what causes the whole of chemistry. |
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So these rules govern everything |
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Of course. Haven't you noticed gravity? For example.. |
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Last edited by Bonsay; 10-27-2008 at 05:23 PM.
Yes. But if atoms where goveverned by gavity and thats it wont they fly together and create . . . im not sure what lol |
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They'd basically form black holes yes but repulsions between the negative charges of electrons which are on the outside of atoms stops that from happening. |
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Okay okay im slowly getting this. |
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Well they do, but it's so weak that you don't really notice it, if it isn't on a large scale. There are four elementary "forces" (I know somebody will correct me on this): |
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This is actually an important question if you go back to the Big Bang. Why isn't the universe homogeneous? If it started from a singularity, the no hair theorem (saying that black holes are determined completely by their mass, spin, and charge) says that it should be the same everywhere because the black hole that spawned the universe was symmetrical. But it turns out, quantum mechanics explains this by saying that all the processes in the universe are fundamentally probabilistic, and our physical laws only say what outcomes are most likely, at least on the small scale. So when the Big Bang happened, within the tiniest fraction of a second, there were already clumps forming in the particle soup, which then went on to become superclusters of galaxies. |
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So atoms respond to the conditions they are in? |
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They do act the same. They are all bound by the same laws and are essentially made of the same thing. |
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mayb im just too stupid to get this. |
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So far what i get is: |
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Things are different because there are different kinds of atoms. Every atom has a certain ammount of electrons, neutrons and protons. Different combinations of these give different kind of atoms and different kind of materials. Then they combine into different kind of molecules. That's why there is so much diversety. |
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Not much time, I'll be brief. |
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