On Mon, 29 Jan 2007 09:41:06 -0800, Fred Ferrely wrote:

Krypton. . . Cesium . . . What ever. Why not Oxygen? Carbon?
Even good ol Iron??

Hi Fred,

Couldn't afford it.

Another thing, as it was explained to me, first the electrons are
ghosts to begin with which pop in and out of existence at a whim.

That was some explanation. It raises one of two questions. Did you
understand it? Or did the explainer?

it also seems
to me that the electrons quit popping in and out of existence then
too.

This would seem to pin a no to each question above.

SO if everything settles down at
0 "K" and starts working properly, why is it so damn hard to achieve?

Does a 2 year-old ever settle down? Short of their already being
asleep, why is that so hard to get them to bed?

It seems to me that everything would try to achieve the balancing
point, . . Equilibrium; Being that matter abhors a vacuum to begin
with. There has GOT to be an antagonist stirring the pot somewhere
from behind the scenes!! . . . Gravity?

People do a fairly good job of gumming up the works. Heisenberg
introduced us to the notion that when we bother to look, everything
changes. A pyramid balanced on its point is in an equilibrium, but
that is not the same as it being in its lowest energy state, also an
equilibrium. Not all equals are equal (credit George Orwell).

73's
Richard Clark, KB7QHC