I mean, literally, how do you do that?

Do you randomly search books and articles on random topics?

You need to study the periodic table, mainly.

And get a good textbook

Then start from the beginning

Like, to know what are symbols of different elements and what is their order?

Mhm

That's the first step

What textbook?

That's the boring step I'd gladly skip

I already know too much of a period table

I would recommend any one in your native language

What, why

The concepts are a bit annoying to have to read through with English, no?

I don't really get what you mean know

If you have no preference nbd

Might be getting sick ree

But basically

What happened?

The first thing you want to learn is a bit of background

Starting on the subatomic level

With electrons mostly

since that's most of the size of an atom and where the interesting stuff happens.

And then you move up from there

Oh, like valence electrons and shit

Size not mass btw*

I know that all atoms want to have either 2 or 8 valence electrons

Yeah. They just want to occupy the lowest energy state possible

And that's when they have a neutral charge

I will probably add "learning chemistry" somewhere on my to-do list

So they will give up an electron or two or gain one if that's what it takes to be neutral

But it sounds like something requiring putting some effort

Yeah, and they share these electrons with other atoms

Which is why if you go across the table by group number, there are certain atoms that will usually show up in nature with a certain charge.

Which I've posted before.

But I will post again cuz it's cool

I really used to like chemistry back in midschool

I sometimes miss these classes

I mean, I still have math and physics

But with chemistry it would be just perfect

I sucked at chemistry in HS

It was interesting without the math parts I struggled with.

Although I would probably do a lot better now.

Math is easy

Most of it is boring

But at least it's easy and you don't have to put any effort into that

All the metals have a variable charge and readily give up electrons to become cations

So you don't have to really keep track of them

But the main group elements all have a charge they will take on to stabilize the atom.

I got straight 50s in math until I was 20 and went back to college to upgrade my shitty high school grades.

Once I learned programming, math was ezpz

Which was dumb that programming made more sense to me than math did and I ended up working backwards to git gud at math

What does "50s" mean?

Sometimes with math all it takes is just taking off from it and then relearning it.

50/100

Like a percentage scale?

Oh

Ok

A 50 is the minimum passing grade

It should be here too tbh

I literally learn math on tests

It's like
Okay, I don't know a shit about all this "combinatorics" thing, but I'll figure it out, right?

And it always works for me

Well that's good

But yeah learning about matter is fun.

And you end up learning about how it interacts with the fundamental forces and vice versa

Which is invaluable knowledge if you're OCD like me or just curious about the nature of the universe ^^

Universe is a horrible place tbh

Its cold dark and ugly.

But matter is cool

But there's starts to light it up

Well, isn't matter a part of the universe?

Like, quite an essential one

Definitely.

The downside is that those stars emite huge amounts of radiation and will boil you alive in space without a suit.

I meant how it interacts with the rest of the universe.

What a shitty way to die.

Oh, okay, I meant the "universe" in a broader sense

Like, including Earth

And shiet

You turn into solid ice on one side, and the side of you facing the star boils.

Also your lungs get fuckin pressed flat.

Yeah you don't want to get pulled into something that dense.

Which is why I don't get why humans keep trying to make crappy little spaceships made of metal.

News flash people.... you live in a spaceship thats a giant rock.

Which generates its own magnetic field that keeps you from burning up if a flare from the Sun goes off (Which it does often)

Well the metal is lighter than a rock with a dope magnetic field.

And getting it up to space requires it to be light

At the moment anyways.

true

Surely, someday, we will discover a better method of propulsion other than chemical rockets.

I mean. Hope so? Not really? Seems like a Waste of money.

Everything is a waste of money

It's like if you're implying that something humans do is not pointless

Everything people do is a waste of money

I agree.

Some people want to close themselves or other people in small metal cages and send them far away from Earth

But that's okay, they have a goal

People need the goal in they're life that they can pursue