Atomic Number Engineering

The practice of designing and creating materials by manipulating atomic nuclei—changing one element into another, creating new elements, or precisely controlling isotopic composition. Atomic number engineering is alchemy made scientific: instead of turning lead into gold (possible but not worth the energy), modern practitioners create elements that don't exist in nature, produce isotopes for medicine and industry, and dream of one day assembling materials atom by atom, nucleus by nucleus. The field sits at the intersection of nuclear physics and materials science, requiring particle accelerators, immense energy, and patience for extremely low yields. The payoff is everything from cancer treatments to space probe power sources to the fundamental expansion of the periodic table.

Example: "The lab synthesized element 117, adding a new row to the periodic table. The sample consisted of exactly three atoms that existed for milliseconds before decaying. Atomic number engineering had succeeded, though no one would ever hold element 117 in their hand. The periodic table grew; human ambition grew with it."

by Dumu The Void February 16, 2026

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Cause Numbers

A prescription of benzos (i.e. Xanax, Klonopin, Ativan, &/or Valium). Called Cause Numbers because I always wake up in jail with a new cause number after taking 1 too many.

I woke up in the drunk tank again, beaten and with no memory of what charges I was being held on. Blame it on those Cause Numbers again!

by OJ Skrimpson March 15, 2026

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Time number

a second is a time unit a minute is 60 seconds an hour is 3600 seconds a day is 86400 seconds or 24 hours or 1440 minutes a week is 604800 seconds and 10080 minutes and 168 hours 7 days 30 699/1600 days in a month or 2592629 seconds to the nearest second. 43210 minutes rounded. 720 hours rounded.

so the numbers are 1 of the same thing is itself, 7 days a week, 24 hours a day, 30 days rounded 60 obvi, 168 hours in week, 720 hours, 1440 minutes, 10080 minutes, 43210 minutes, 86400 seconds, 604800 seconds, 2592629 seconds

No way is 43210 a time number it's so obvious! thats 4 to 0-

by chargingvindiction4 February 25, 2025

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