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New Results Contradict Long-Held Chemistry Dogma
An anonymous reader writes "Researchers have found that the long-held belief that only the outer, valence, electrons of an atom interact may be false. Computer simulations have shown that at pressures like those in the center of the Earth the inner, core, electrons of lithium also interact."
>For science I rather find the more we understand, the more we realize we don't understand.
that's a terrible way of phrasing it.
try: the more clearer our picture of the universe becomes, the more we appreciate how much more clear it can still yet become.
>500+ years ago scientists thought the earth was flat.
500+ is a bit ambiguous. but what's more surprising is that there are religious people TODAY who still believe:
-the world was created fully-formed a few thousand years ago
-God injects souls into cells when a sperm and egg meet
-priests can turn wine into blood and bread into flesh
-God will listen to your thoughts and act on them if he likes you enough
-God hates it when people with the same genitalia love each other
-the weather is a messaging service by which God reveals his displeasure with human society
-babies just aren't good enough until they've had parts of their body chopped off
-babies just aren't good enough until they've been baptised
-women just aren't good enough
-there are some animals that are more holy than others and (must/must not) be killed
-the testimony of ancient texts, complete with known mistranslations and forgeries, is more valuable than the consensus of modern experts
-murder, violence and threats are acceptable responses to someone who doesn't share your beliefs
-human beings using medicine to heal each other is against God's will
etc. etc.