On 11/15/2003 07:35 AM, Craig Lucanus wrote:
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> I agree, it's physics, not occult, but still I insist that:
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> Nobody has determined the physics, ab initio at least, why this
> (non-sequential filling of shells by the aufbau scheme) should occur,
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> Semi-empirically yes (and always looking in the rear view mirror,
> accounting for observed facts), but ab initio, no.