Question

Many scientists have contributed to the current accepted atomic model. Which of the following would be a reasonable description of this current atomic model?

Answer 1

A. The model has changed very little over its entire history.

B. The model gradually changed as new scientific data was gathered.

C. The model is virtually complete and is unlikely to change much.

D. The model quickly and rapidly changed until technology caught up.

Answer 2

id say:
B. The model gradually changed as new scientific data was gathered.

Answer 3

ID say : D.. The model changed rapidly when Niels bohr came with a BIG CHANGE. After that all subatomic particles which you should include in the atomic theory where being developed within the theory.. then technology caught up, like for example @ CERN, then they'd just try to prove the existince of all those particles.

Answer 4

There was a big change when quantum mechanics came, compared to the Bohr atom. And modern theory has all kinds of new things. It is hard to agree with "gradual change." But I'm not crazy about either C or D as an answer.

Answer 5

I don't agree with C on this one.. I mean there is so much left unexplained. Just ask you're self the questions, how wil the prediction of string theory that there are 13 dimensions resultate in things like the atomic model? They are trying to link quantum mechanics with the theory of relativity in one theory that's called the string theory. Maybe we will discover that quantum mechanics has more to it then it says now.. I'm not a real physicist myself, I study chemistry but I love physics and I think the smallest thing left unexplained can lead to the most revolutionizing theory. Before quantum mechanics kicked in around 1880 scientists thought that physics was done well it wasn't and I think there are still gonna be some verry new and big theories that may or not may change the way we see the world, how we see atoms and how we see the interaction between them resulting in life and other stuff :P