That thing that you're mocking me for? I've just had to do it now.
I'm kind of interested in the periodic table and I have been ever since I was a kid. They're still finding new elements, as you know - every few years it seems the Russians and the Americans work together and find something. The latest is called
tennessine (note: names of elements don't start with capital letters).
This is a nice clickable table:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Periodic_table#OverviewBUT - it's not really
finding new elements that's going on - it's 'synthesising', because they aren't found in nature. Yet because they're elements, it's not about
creating them either. They already exist. Kind of.
What's blowing my mind, and why I had to walk away from the wiki article and talk to myself for a minute, is that they don't know what properties these elements have, even though they can create them, and
have created them, in laboratories. I'm not entirely sure why this is! It has something to do with the fact that they decay very quickly, I think. They can predict that because they belong to a certain group in the table (alkali metals or halogens or whatever) they possess the same properties as the others - however, this isn't necessarily true.
I want to say more but I'll leave this there. For now.