Electro-chemistry and Electromagnetism

Fusing the laws of electro-chemistry and electromagnetism seem elusive. We have a lot of tools at our disposal from CERN to the Oakridge colliders. Seeing the relationship and patterns between ions and electrons will certainly be one of the next century's major endavours. Though expensive, statistical research into the interaction between electrons and their more massive and less massive particle friends.

Let's consider the interaction between two helium atoms coming at each other with kinetic energy. Two electrons find themselves somewhere near each nucleus. It is unlikely that the two nuclei will come together first. Instead, more likely, two electrons will interact causing one or both of them to accelerate in what might look, on such a small scale, as a violent way. This interaction will scatter the two electrons more than the two nuclei or the other two electrons.

If the universe contained only these two helium atoms, then the electrons would fly off until they were attracted back to a nucleus through the acceleration due to the electric fields of the imbalanced nuclei. Remember that there are only two atoms in this make-believe universe.

Important to note in this little scenario is that the hot path is the screaming mutual acceleration of the two hot electrons the return path is the less violent return of the electrons to their valence position outside their respective helium atom.

Why, pray-tell, do I present this scenario? It is important to understand this small scenario before exploring how trillions more atoms and molecules behave in a bunch to create gravity using what we most often call electrostatic or electro-statistical attraction.