03/18/2025
Terrance Howard, the actor in the first Iron Man, said that the periodic table is wrong. It shouldn’t be a grid, but circles as elements are organized in octaves and hertz.
He believes this new periodic table provides a more accurate representation of the elements and their interactions.
Terrence quit college, where he was studying Chemical Engineering, because he disagreed with his professor about the periodic table. The table is usually shown as a rectangle, but Terrence believed the elements actually follow a spiral pattern and are connected.
He noticed that hydrogen, carbon, silicon, and cobalt showed the same color on a spectrometer, repeating in a pattern like musical notes across octaves. He wanted to redesign the table to match this idea but later found out that someone named Walter Russell had already created a version of the table based on a similar curved pattern.
Terrence says this table doesn’t show how the elements are connected. He explains that elements have both color and sound — and the sound can be measured. For example, Hydrogen has a sound frequency of 40.5 Hz, and Carbon has 81 Hz. Carbon’s sound is double that of Hydrogen, but they still share the same wave. The elements are connected by the same wave, but their wavelengths vary in predictable patterns.
Terrence believes these connections are important to show because they help us understand the basics of the universe.
