We disagree that the new element is inert.
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Oxford University researchers have discovered the heaviest element yet known to science. The new element, Governmentium (symbol Gv), has one neutron, 25 assistant neutrons, 88 deputy neutrons and 198 assistant deputy neutrons, giving it an atomic mass of 312.
These 312 particles are held together by forces called morons, which are surrounded by vast quantities of lepton-like particles called pillocks. Since governmentium has no electrons, it is inert. However, it can be detected because it impedes every reaction with which it comes into contact.
A tiny amount of Governmentium can cause a reaction that would normally take less than a second, to take from four days to four years to complete.
Governmentium has a normal half-life of two to six years. It does not decay but instead undergoes a reorganisation in which a portion of the assistant neutrons and deputy neutrons change places.
In fact, Governmentiums’s mass will actually increase over time, since each reorganisation will cause more morons to become neutrons, forming isodopes. This characteristic of moron promotion leads some scientists to believe that Governmentium is formed whenever morons reach a critical concentration. This hypothetical quantity is referred to as a critical morass.
When catalyzed with money, Governmentium becomes Administratium (symbol Ad), an element that radiates just as much energy as Governmentium, since it has half as many pillocks but twice as many morons.
Governmentium and Administratium while elements, are also reactive like the prions that cause scrapie-like diseases of the mind. Demon-crats by the very nature of their party, are always trying to infuse greater and greater amounts of morons, until the bureacracy reaches the Mandarin-level of critical Morass, at which point governmentium and Administratium degrade into bureaucretanium, which gives out false data/impulses, called qwirks while it lays there, doing nothing. It is recommended that Demon-crats be discouraged from holding office, as they often seek to add morons, allowing a Mandarin-level of Critical Morass to be reached. I wonder if I can get a GRANT for studying this, as the Demon-crats are causing a Global-warming Mythic as they approach Critical Morass. The levels of morons they are adding is consistant to a maintanence of the Mythic, as the levels of morons are increasing for the short-term, due to Demon-crat fulminations.