The Atomic Assassination Timeline

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The Atomic Assassination Timeline

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The EVOLUTION OF ATOMIC THEORY: A DEADLY LINEUP! Thomson's plum pudding model sits there smugly like "yeah, I've got electrons floating in positive goo, what about it?" Meanwhile, Rutherford's model is taking aim with its orbiting electrons, ready to blow holes in Thomson's theory. Bohr's model is backing up Rutherford with those fancy quantized orbits. But WAIT—hiding in the shadows is quantum mechanics with Heisenberg's uncertainty principle, ready to absolutely DEMOLISH everyone's neat little orbits with "Sorry folks, you can't know position AND momentum simultaneously!" It's basically the atomic theory family reunion where each generation wants to murder its predecessors! 🔬⚛️

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