The Missing Element...

Professor Owen Gingerich raises a very interesting point; that of the elements that make-up the early part of the periodic table, one does not hold the atomic weight of 5 (a charge of 5 but not a mass). He states that there is no stability in the number and that nothing sticks. It is said for the substance to not hold a form apart from the accumulation of hydrogen atoms.

This "gool" is puzzling. The reality we are left with in it's absence has made for some interesting developments on earth. For example it has left room for the abundance of elements that we know to be our driving and primary life sources such as carbon and oxygen. Without such things life as we know it would cease to exist. One wonders why there is a number at such an early stage of the elements that does not exist in our reality. But, then again maybe it is that we are asking the wrong question. What if it does exist but is something that as of yet has been undiscovered? Or what if we are staring it straight in the face like a watch what if it is time or space? Time as we know it is a socially constructed tool measuring from one event to the next. But in actuality time can not be so straight forward. It is experienced in different paces, intervals, and durations by each individual. So, its inability to be pinned down has something in common with the missing element. Even space, it is this empty vacuous place, but then that emptiness is something unto itself. A weighted 5, as aforementioned, is said to not hold form. Meaning it is nothing; so maybe we already have the answer.