I need to see if someone can dispute/verify this physics/chemistry statement I found in an old book?

Question

There's apparently this book called the Urantia Book. A lot of people claim it's revelatory and has proven many scientific things before they came to pass...One thing has me skeptical though:

Please read the following statement (by the way Ovronton is supposedly the name of our universe as the book describes it):

"In Orvonton it has never been possible naturally to assemble over one hundred orbital electrons in one atomic system. When one hundred and one have been artificially introduced into the orbital field, the result has always been the instantaneous disruption of the central proton with the wild dispersion of the electrons and other liberated energies."

Now I know that some "elements" above 100 are more stable than some of the elements below 100 (ex: radioactive elements below 100). But, I am wondering if perhaps I am misreading this? The book had this information composed in 1934...so I am not sure what the definition of an atomic system is/was in 1934...can someone help me?

Please provide specifics on what actually happens if electrons were artificially added...does the central proton get disrupted? I don't want nonsense answers saying the book is hocus pocus. I could care less what you feel or think the book is. I'm personally skeptical but I do think the UB is a pretty interesting piece of work regardless of its authorship. When you compose your answer, I want to know the science - does it check out or not? Read the question carefully. I don't want to deal with assumptions or lazy logic.

Answer 1

1934? That was a long long time ago!

The basic problem is not the electrons on the outside, but the stability of the nucleus. Last I heard about it, there was some speculation that there could be an "island of stability" for values of Z (= number of protons) ~ 137; but I'm pretty sure that is only speculation.

I see something from CERN in 1999 that suggests that the Russians created a nucleus with Z = 114 and A = 289, with a lifetime of a few seconds. The decay of 114 proceeds by alpha decay and not affected in any way by electrons on the outside.

So I don't think this book is going to provide much useful guidance.

Answer 2

ok, in short and NOT confusing speculation, the book is correct. i'm not 100% on the whole disruption of the nucleus thing, but any artificially intruduced electrons will not stick to the atom very long because it take a great deal of force to stick it there...much more than the nuclear binding force between the positively charged protons and negatively charged electrons. there is simply to much negative charge. to create an atom with many electrons, there must be about that many protons, however, the bigger the nucleus gets, the more apt it is to be radioactive and give off protons...and the matching electrons for that matter!

Answer 3

Urantia is not scientific, it is metaphysical, which basically means no connection to reality.