The Periodic Table

 I'm so, so, so happy to share the surprise I've been planning for this blog, related to the happiness molecules posts I've been doing. If you missed my last one with diffusion, click here. I'd recommend reading it before this post, just for some context. 

So without further ado, here's the surprise:

It's the periodic table of Feelings Elements! Basically, it's divided up into groups. The blue ones represent fear, the red, anger, yellow, happiness, and green, tension. You may look at the numbers and wonder why they aren't in order. Well, if you like chemistry, you'll know the elements' numbers are how many protons they have. I figured that some elements may have a lot more than others because of their various categories. In addition, I didn't want to seal off the prospect of even more elements joining each group, so I left some space between the their numbers. Also, there are three letters representing each element because I didn't want the abbreviations getting mixed up with the ones from the actual periodic table of elements.

For those of you who are even bigger geniuses :), you may have realized there's no atomic weight for the particles. I considered putting them in, but to be honest, I couldn't quite yet figure out what weight each one would be. I'm also thinking to just make them without any weight at all, because they exist in people's Thought passages. And thoughts don't really "weigh" anything. Which may believe you to think that "well, if they don't weigh anything, then how can they exist?". This is the complicated power of the Thoughts, which I will go into later. For now, just forget about the atomic weight part of each element.

So what do you guys think? I'll explain how much of each element makes a molecule in the near future. Oh, and for those of you wondering where the names came from, the answer is Latin! Google Translate was my best friend during this project ;). I hope you liked this periodic table. Keep reading!

Question One: Anger or Sadness?

     Is it better to be angry or sad? That's the question I'm going to answer today using the ideas and concepts from my previous post.
     So if you did your homework, which basically was just to read my previous post, you'll know sadness is really just a lack of happiness molecules, and that anger tries to diffuse very fast, not necessarily through the Thoughts passage though. Punching a pillow may make you feel better, because the molecules diffuse on contact, though the pillow may not feel it.
     Alright, so let's consider recovering from sadness. To recover, you need to gain happiness molecules, which must diffuse from someone around you, or something good must happen to help some molecules convert into happiness molecules. So unless you hear some good news, you'll most likely stay sad. We can't exactly measure how long it may take for the good news to reach you, but we can compare these ideas with how anger molecules play out.
    People can regret their actions when they were mad within mere seconds of them taking place, because their molecules have diffused into the surroundings, causing the overall kinetic energy of them to also go down, and their anger to decrease. Therefore, this means that you will most likely stay sad longer than you will stay mad. So based on my theories, anger is preferable to sadness, unless you do not mind staying sad longer. Then, the choice is yours! 
     But of course, the real answer is to try to be happy, because who knows the half-life of a pillow? 

Properties of Happiness Molecules... and more!

 I had a lot of fun writing the other energy post, so now I'm going to expand on the idea of these Feelings molecules (which, by the way, have happiness energy, if you did not guess). Again, you'll need a basic knowledge of something, namely diffusion. Even if you do not remember what on earth that term means, don't worry, you will when I explain it.
 So if you've ever had a tea party with actual tea (unlike the games I played when I was little), you'll know the scenario goes something like this:
 Host: "Good day, Sir (or Ma'am). Would you like some tea?"
 Guest: "Oh yes, please."
 Host: "And how many lumps of sugar would you like?"
 Guest: "Seven, please."

Please do NOT go pouring seven lumps of sugar into your tea. This is merely an example. 
Anyways, the point is, the guest goes pouring their sugar into their cup of tea. The sugar cube, as you may realize, has a large amount of particles in a relatively confined space, or high concentration. The tea, however, has lots of molecules as well, but in a larger volume, or low concentration. Therefore, the sugar's molecules will spread out from their high concentration into the low concentration in diffusion, or what we call dissolving. The molecules don't shrink or anything, just spread out. I don't know about you guys, but when I first read this a few years ago, I thought it was pretty cool.

...Which brings me to the point. Today we'll learn about the properties of certain specialized molecules rarely heard about: the Feelings Molecules. There are a few main types of those molecules: happiness molecules, anger molecules, fright molecules, and tension molecules. 
Happiness molecules: Happiness molecules can be gained in a variety of ways (A on test, fun time with friends, etc.) which I may expand on later on, but I'll leave alone for now because I do not want to talk about the Thoughts very much, as they are very powerful. But what I can explain is that happiness diffuses! If one is very happy, they want to spread the happiness to others! However, the molecules in this case do not need to spread out on contact, and can travel in many complicated ways, again relating to T, the Thoughts. Unlike regular molecules, Happiness molecules can travel through people's Thought passages, and actually try to do so. You may think that "Hey, then how come you don't get less happy if your molecules diffuse to other people?". Well, this is because as you transmit happiness to people, they transmit them back simultaneously, so there's a constant balance formed. 
Anger molecules: Anger, unfortunately, tries to diffuse very fast. If you're angry, well, you most likely feel like hitting or punching something and diffusing the anger you feel. This is especially why you shouldn't stand near someone while you're angry. Now, the good thing is that people usually have the tendency to give you some space, but other times they may start snapping back at you because of what the anger molecules have done. The positive side is that happiness is stronger than anger, so if you're mad, go buy a cake or something.
Fright molecules: More fright molecules means more fear. Fear, however, does NOT diffuse throughout others, and just stays confined to your body. The only way to get rid of fright molecules is to overpower them with some one of the other types mentioned. Now, really, the "overpowering" is just diffusion of other molecules into the area of the fright molecules. Complicated, right?
Tension molecules: These molecules are from anxiety, nervousness, etc. For example, an oral report will most probably increase your nervousness because your tension molecules number increases. Tension molecules usually do diffuse. You can spread anxiety to others and make them nervous. Just like in happiness molecules, increasing tension molecules in others usually still results in the same amount of tension, because they will pass through the Thoughts passage back and forth. 

These are the main properties of the four Feelings molecules. You may wonder about sadness molecules as well, but really, they don't exist. Sadness is caused by a lack happiness molecules from the regular healthy amount. A regular decline of the happiness molecules can lead to depression and other things, so that's why they should always be kept up. I'll do a follow-up post on the uses of these properties, probably with more problems. I hope you enjoyed reading! Here's your professor, signing out!

-Not A Prima Donna Girl

Happiness... In Physics Terms

 Question: Jenny wants to treat two of her friends out. She wants to know if she should take them to a movie, then hold a party at her home right after, or take them to a movie and hold the party next week. Assuming the week is a school week, both events let them gain equal amounts of energy, and Jenny lives very close by to the theater, which option would make Jenny's friends the happiest?

Okay, so for this problem, let me explain a few things. First of all, this isn't really a real problem involving real energy, but I'm going to prove the answer to you using "Happiness Energy" and the laws that go along with it in a way similar to how one would solve a physics problem.

The laws:
So let's start with the law of energy, that even applies to happiness energy, HE (and I know that's similar to the abbreviation for helium in the periodic table, but that's not what it means in this case). The law is energy cannot be created nor destroyed. This is a really important law, and similarly, HE can't be created or destroyed either. Another form of energy, however, can transform into happiness energy. A common example is sadness energy, SE (which does not refer to Selenium), which often transforms to happiness energy when one feels happy. However, there's also madness energy, the energy of guilt, selfishness energy, etc. etc, which I may cover in later problems. This leads to a problem, because that means HE does not just come from SE, but from other forms of energy as well. Therefore, there is only one law that sums up the conservation of energy theory, which I'm getting to.

You've heard of mechanical energy conservation in a closed system when friction can be ignored, right? If you haven't, then here it is:

(KE+PE)start = (KE+ PE)end

KE refers to kinetic energy, PE to potential. It's basically stating that the total mechanical energy does not change if friction can be ignored. However, this is totally false in terms of happiness energy. Happiness energy does not have to stay the same before you go read a book and after, when you realize that book was really boring! So here's the real energy conservation law for that:

(T)start = (T)end

 T refers to the energy of the thoughts, the most powerful of all in the world. Now it turns out we can't use this law to find out how much happiness energy they will all have, because we don't know how selfish or angry or sad her friends are at the beginning of the movie, only how happy they are at the end.

Okay, and now for this last part, which is not a law, just a point, is that happiness energy is actually measured in units of happiness energy. So total happiness energy would be in units of HE, not Joules like most forms of energy.

Actually solving the problem:

So let's move on. The truth is, you don't really need any complicated laws to solve this problem, just an idea of the laws above. 

OPTION 1: Let's start with the first option, taking them to a movie, then to a party straightaway. 

At the end of the movie, all three girls will gain happiness energy to result in 3(HE). Driving home, they lose a bit of happiness energy that transforms into the energy of hunger, etc., but since Jenny lives so close by to the theater, we deem that as insignificant. So at the end of the party, they also gain 3(HE).

Total (HE) = 3(HE) + 3(HE) = 6(HE). 

So at the end of the party, they have 6(HE) of happiness energy left in them.

OPTION 2: Jenny takes them to the movie, then next week she has a party.

At the end of the movie, all three girls will have 3(HE) of energy, as said above. However, since there is a week in between, there is most likely energy loss, significant energy loss, because guess what, it's a school week. Throughout the week, they lose happiness energy and gain sadness energy, stress energy, etc. until going over to the party. By then, their 3(HE) must have reduced, due to quizzes, tests, and homework, and they cannot make it all up. At the end of the party, they gain 3(HE). 

Total (HE) = less than 3(HE) + 3(HE) = less than 6(HE).

So since first answer is greater than the second, we can conclude option one of going out to a movie then a party right after would make her friends a a lot more happy. 

And that's how to solve a problem using basic laws of physics! Here's your professor, signing out!

-Not a Prima Donna Girl