Based on the information in “Atom: Clash of the Titans”, please answer the following questions: 1. Why was it so important that the scientists investigating the atom be young and unattached to existing scientific thinking? 2. What connection did Bohr discover between atoms and light? 3. Why did Einstein hate Bohr’s ideas - quantum mechanics, electrons jumping and releasing light - about the atom? Solution 1) The scientists investigating the atom should be young as was then the young scientist Albert Einstein. His harsh arrogance led him barely any employment, thereby because of his undemanding job he had a lot of time to have deep thoughts. And that was the era wherin he worked on to prove the existence of atom. Though it was Boltzman who started work on this topic but due to his health conditions and alegations on him being irrelegious materialist lead to him comitting suicide. And the scientists should be unattached to existing scientific thinking as was scientist Neil Bohr who was fearless in his thinking and was ready to abandon common sense and human intution to find an explanation. 2)Bohr\'s connection between atoms and light was as follows-quantum jumps Light is emitted when an electron jumps from a higher orbit to a lower orbit and is absorbed when jumps from lower to higher orbit. In order to overcome the limitations of Bohr model and to develop a general model for atoms.The 2 developments contibuted a lot - 3)As the bohr idea of new atom and quantum jumps were not so traditional neither they matched classical science theories thus the old school people strongly opposed it. And Albert Einstein was one of them as he wanted to save the world of order and wanted to preserve the common sense. .

1. Based on the information in “Atom: Clash of the Titans”, please answer the following questions:
1. Why was it so important that the scientists investigating the atom be young and unattached to
existing scientific thinking?
2. What connection did Bohr discover between atoms and light?
3. Why did Einstein hate Bohr’s ideas - quantum mechanics, electrons jumping and releasing
light - about the atom?
Solution
1) The scientists investigating the atom should be young as was then the young scientist Albert
Einstein. His harsh arrogance led him barely any employment, thereby because of his
undemanding job he had a lot of time to have deep thoughts. And that was the era wherin he
worked on to prove the existence of atom. Though it was Boltzman who started work on this
topic but due to his health conditions and alegations on him being irrelegious materialist lead to
him comitting suicide.
And the scientists should be unattached to existing scientific thinking as was scientist Neil Bohr
who was fearless in his thinking and was ready to abandon common sense and human intution to
find an explanation.
2)Bohr's connection between atoms and light was as follows-quantum jumps
Light is emitted when an electron jumps from a higher orbit to a lower orbit and is absorbed
when jumps from lower to higher orbit. In order to overcome the limitations of Bohr model and
to develop a general model for atoms.The 2 developments contibuted a lot -
3)As the bohr idea of new atom and quantum jumps were not so traditional neither they matched
classical science theories thus the old school people strongly opposed it. And Albert Einstein was
one of them as he wanted to save the world of order and wanted to preserve the common sense.