Did I come up with it? Who knows. But somebody came up with a game that is sure to revolutionize America. It was simply called "the electron game." It's pretty easy to play. All you need is one person. That person is a single nucleus. They can move about, if they like. Of course, two people are needed to determine what sort of nucleus this is. The second person to enter the game is an electron. They circle the proton indefinitely. Usually, the person serving as the nucleus was unaware of their participation until we began orbiting them without mercy. Hence, you have a hydrogen atom. Of course, the more people you have, the more electrons. And thus you can form elements with higher and higher atomic numbers.

The fun doesn't stop there, though. Once you pass two electrons, the next eight electrons circle in the next orbit. Electrons, if they jump down an orbit, gain energy and start orbiting more quickly. If someone shouts "Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle," everyone runs around crazily. This has little to do with the principle itself, but that's besides the point. I think we tried Pauli's Exclusion too, but it probably didn't work too well.

Anyway, on very rare occasions, that's how we passed the time in band class. Or at any time we were in the band hall. The higher we ever got was oxygen, atomic number 8.