- What explanation is proposed for the observation that protons with like charges (+) can stay close together in the nucleus of an atom? Why don't they repel each other right out of the nucleus?
- What is meant by the "island of stability"? Why is it called an island?
- What reasoning did the scientists use to predict the properties of element 114?
- Why do you think it is so very difficult to have a direct collision between nuclei? Is it something to do with the size of the particles? Their charge?
- What other combinations of two elements would, mathematically at least, yield the nucleus of element 114?
