The Nature of the Atom: An Introduction to the Structured Atom Model

This is an excellent book. It proposes a new theory of how the nucleus of the atom works. It thinks more like the chemist than the physicist because the authors are Engineers. It creates a hard shell theory of protons and creates logical order in the nucleus. I will not attempt to tell the theory because that is what the book does, but I will say that I agree with the authors that the model is at least useful and gave me ideas about how a current immense nuclear phenomonon works. I would not have thought of it without the book but that may be because I am just a catalytic chemist myself and not a physicist. This book is good and it describes a method that would not be accepted in the mainstream of science today. Maybe tomorrow it will, but not today. I did have a moment of doubt when the authors threw away the concept of the positron, which definitely does exist, but when I realised that for use in there model it does not really matter whether it exists or not, then I went right on ahead with my reading and I am glad I did. These guys have good ideas and a useful model. Read the book.

It’s an interesting read … There many facets to the research presented … but can be connected to other disciplines depending on your own technical understanding… such as my field of environmental sciences… the book attempts to close the gap of uncertainties in physics related to internal workings of the Nucleus and orbitals and how they are more intertwined electrically / structurally than taught traditionally .. and relies on the concept of potential ordering and growth of elements from duality of a charge grid / particle (pep) that expands and branches to any scale electric force present … as if there is a range of dimensionality to the electric nature of all elements .. it’s a in depth read , and few concepts pop up related to how the core of the atom is stable or positioned in-reference to itself , other atoms, and secondary reactions / decays known experimentally or empirically .. And all by how electrons work internally, externally and expanding definition further beyond the concept of a point charge or a wave function …. As of if the electron is continually connecting dimension and conforms elastically to the proton structure for stability . The book definitely feels relatable and how the fractal nature is always scalable and yielding

Well written. Makes complete sense and removes artificial forces created to explain results the old paradigm can't. As an EE, I like that it reduces to a single electric force. It's ability to predict is impressive.I've been following your website since you first presented at an EU conference.

Still need more data but very interesting to get a hold of what they are trying to do.

The nucleus of an atom is a tiny thing, and it's difficult to stick your finger into it to feel what's there. Experimenters with proper instruments and methods can get some clues about the contents: There appear to be bits and pieces—which are called particles because they're easily understood as tiny parts of parts of parts of something familiar, like a marble. But that's an assumption, a metaphor. Caution is warranted.One particle, called a proton, carries a positive electric charge. The experimenters have some idea of how big (read: tiny) it is. Another particle, called a neutron because it appears to carry no charge, is about the same size, but when it's pulled out of the nucleus—like Little Jack Horner's plum—it turns into a proton and something that has a negative influence: No one has been able to measure a “size”. It's assumed to be an even tinier particle, but it doesn't behave entirely like one would expect of a little marble. The assumptions—that an electron is a particle and that a neutron is a neutral one—might be mistaken.The majority of investigators hold the opinion that these little pseudo-marbles in the nucleus rattle around like molecules in a gas and can only be described statistically with the Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle. However, there are clues that they have some kind of structure, and in recent decades many models of possible nuclear structures have been proposed.A recent promising proposal is described in The Nature of the Atom by Edo Kaal et al. The Structured Atom Model (SAM) explains in detail a geometric model of nuclear structure and growth based on a principal of “spherical dense packing”. It dispenses with the neutron, replacing it with a “proton-electron pair” and restoring a coherent static electricity force to a nucleus. This provides the squeeze necessary for the spherical dense packing of protons. The spherical dense packing in turn provides the geometric organizing structure for the development of the elements and their properties in the periodic table.SAM explains with causal principles quirks in the table that are accidental with the Standard Model. The proposed geometry of spherical dense packing and the resulting charge distribution then connects with the outer valence electrons, thereby connecting the heretofore separate disciplines of atomic physics and chemistry.The book gives overviews of other models of the atom, and it delves into nuclear reactions, fission, and fusion. The final chapters discuss the effects of a plasma environment—which constitutes 99% of the universe—on nuclear transmutation. SAM provides ready and reasonable explanations for many experimental findings that the Standard Model can only dismiss as impossible.This book gives an exciting introduction to an exciting idea that improves on the explanatory power of the Standard Model. It's for someone who is reasonably aware of the tenets and defects of the Standard Model and who is amenable to challenging alternatives. It's not an easy read but one that will reward the effort to comprehend a well-thought-out new way of thinking about atomic structure.

Great book. I wish the authors had gone into more detail about biological transmutation of elements.

Great inspirational reading