I mean how much more fundamental can one get than the atom? Just can't do it, eh?
Those are all of the subatomic particles that we know of right now.
Establishment approved history out the ying yang
That's not how historiography works though. Historiography involves historians to come up with their own arguments based on multiple lines of evidence and debating each other. I understand your concern that sometimes, politicians can try to distort history to suit their agenda, but to say that a specific "history" has been approved is a misunderstanding of how historiography works.
https://www.britannica.com/topic/historiography
You know, they never tire of doing exactly that in our schools either.
In my experience, my teachers have shown me viewpoints of various historical events from various schools of history, including the Marxist types, Great man history, etc. There's a lot more schools than that:
https://www.librarything.com/topic/61376
Lauding the long dead, white heroes and heroins of science
Back then, the scientific community was extremely prejudiced, and because of discrimination towards black people, most were unable to get any chance of getting an education that would allow them to become scientists. However, many black people in history have become scientists in spite of this:
https://www.biography.com/people/groups/famous-black-scientists
Students being bored to death with it from coast to coast.. Like an epidemic.. Don't think for yourself.. DON'T YOU DARE THINK!.. Celebrate instead!.. Everything's been all figured out for ages.. Don't worry, be happy now.. Trust the experts.. The establishment.. The super rich will surely save us should any of that nasty proverbial manure actually threaten to soil our precious proverbial fan.. Sleep.. SLEEP!..
I don't know what school you went to, but my school has always emphasized that we don't know everything and there's still a lot more to discover out there. What evidence do you have to show for this? And do you not like the rich (I assume from that comment, and from your Bernie Sanders picture)?
In other words, even JJ Thompson never claimed to have seen an electron. Nor a single electron charge. Nor one's "spin". All simply convenient abstractions used to explain perceived (and otherwise highly unexplained) electromagnetic phenomena.
Like I've said earlier, he shot a beam of electrons through a cathode tube with magnets, and the beam was attracted to the positive end of the magnet, and deduced that since opposite charges attract, the beam had particles of a negative charge. He never saw an electron, and I never said he did. I just said that he found evidence to confirm the existence of electrons.
He didn't find the spin. Another scientist and two grad students discovered that.
Did JJ Thompson picture this electron orbiting the nucleus? As in the Bohr model?
No, he simply figured out that electrons exist. In his time, the contemporary idea was the Plum Pudding model. The Bohr model came years later.
As in the Bohr model? Like our planet orbiting the Sun? If so, sorry, physicists don't actually believe that crap any more. For good reason.
Because they analyzed the positions and arrangements of electrons and figured that the electron cloud model or the quantum model is so far the most accurate based on observations. The only good use for the Bohr model is to teach students about the concepts of energy levels.
So what did he actually "discover" again? Here's a little hint. You haven't the foggiest.
The electron? Nobody knew of negatively charged subatomic particles before his work, so I think it's fair to credit him for his discovery of the electron.
Well neither do most physicists today. Know who did? Newton for one. Tesla. Einstein until he went nuts. Sometimes science just gets itself hopelessly tied up in knots of self-delusion.
Because you either have to be either really lucky, or cutting-edge to make discoveries. And there are way more physicists than those 3 who have contributed to the field.
Carl David Anderson &
Seth Neddermeyer for the muon
Georges Lemaître for the Big Bang
Erwin Schrödinger (I can't believe that you forgot this guy. Everybody knows about his cat thought experiment)
C.F. Powell,
Giuseppe Occhialini,
César Lattes for the discovery of the pion
Peter Higgs for his proposal of the Higgs-Boson particle that was later confirmed through collisions.
James Chadwick for the neutron
Werner Heisenberg for the uncertainty principle
Edwin Hubble for discovering that the universe is expanding
Nowadays, a lot of the newer discoveries are made by teams of scientists working together.