Washing time.
Basically I'm lazy.
I mean, why would you walk up the stairs when
you can throw things.
Much more efficient!
Woah!
This reminds  me of the Rutherford Experiment.
See Rutherford was a physicist about 100
years ago
who was exploring the nature of matter.
But instead of socks he used alpha particles,
and instead of a railing
he was using very thin gold foil.
See at the time they'd discovered electrons,
and they knew there  must be something positive
to balance that out in the foil.
They thought it was all sort of mushed together,
bit like this washing here.
They called it the Plum Pudding model.
So what he expected to happen was kind of
a bit like this curtain.
That alpha particles would get slightly deflected
to the left or right depending one whether
they passed a positive or a negative part
of the foil.
But when he found that some actually bounced
right back in his face it blew his socks off.
But most of them, even more strange, flew
straight through
without any deflection at all.
Basically he discovered the atom is mostly
empty space with a very small positive charge
right in the middle of it, the nucleus, which
things occasionally bounced off.
But mostly things passed straight through.
So that means that you, me... this basket
of washing, are all a complete waste of space.
So what would be much more efficient would
be if our electrons were pulled into our nucleus
where they'd meet a proton and become a neutron.
That's what happens in a neutron star.
The gravity makes the pressure so high
everything collapses into neutrons.
So this waste of space washing needs to be thrown
into a neutron star.
I know! I could go over the top!
Yeah, that works better!
