120 WHAT 18 LIFE 



ity of light, the mass of the electron varies with 

 speed. 



In the dynamic planetary atom, every orbital 

 electron, besides its charge, has a path, or orbit, and 

 velocity, or velocities, proper to the orbit. 



The path, or orbit, is determined primarily by the 

 nucleus of the atom to which the electron belongs, 

 but it is modified by other energy conditions within 

 the atom (other electrons) , and also — it is abundantly 

 plain — by external conditions (other atoms) . Thanks 

 to the quantum theory (Planck), all energy levels 

 and energy changes of orbit electrons can be def- 

 initely quantised, and the unit value of all such 

 changes is known to be h. 



But (as was pointed out before) the values that 

 have been worked out thus far, have to do with single 

 atoms, the atom unrelated to its neighboring atoms; 

 and the spectra of many of the atoms have not yet 

 been satisfactorily deciphered. Thus, the model of 

 oxygen is still in doubt. And what is the exact path 

 of the one orbit electron of the H2+-ion? The exact 

 paths and velocities of the orbital electrons in 

 polyatomic systems, in the system of even H2O, are 

 undetermined. However, if the atom really is a 

 planetary system, this does not make it any the less 

 certain that in ionization in a solution, the cap- 

 tured electrons that constitute the negative charges 



