The GreenplanetFM Podcast with Tim Lynch

Glen Atkinson: A circular Periodic Table of Elements elicits new understandings of chemistry and circles

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Synopsis

Glen’s groundbreaking way of looking at the Periodic Table is by shifting one’s 2 dimensional view point to that of a 3 dimensional viewpoint. By making it a round, circular method. This elegant shifting of perspectives, now enables a new way to begin to ‘unlock’ the secrets of matter. In the years ahead all chemists and physicists will marvel at the simplicity of what Glen has achieved and ask themselves - "why didn’t I think of that myself?" Around 330 BCE, the Greek philosopher Aristotle proposed that everything is made up of a mixture of one or more roots, an idea that had originally been suggested by the Sicilian philosopher Empedocles. The four roots, which were later renamed as elements by Plato, were earth, water, air and fire. Similar ideas about these four elements also existed in other ancient traditions, such as Indian philosophy. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_periodic_table So over time right up through the industrial revolution enquiring minds have endeavoured to map out the ‘cons