Nah. Lens Larque will pinch it all, just when the warehouse is full…
Goldbergsilversteinium.
And set some patsy up to take the fall, I’m betting. Damned rachepol! :mad:
/pleased someone got it
For what it’s worth, “unbibium” (which sounds like a tribute to its metastability, “Un-byebye” ;)) is a placeholder name on one of two systems for describing elements not yet discovered whose properties are being extrapolated, or elements claimed to have been discovered but not yet confirmed from a second, completely independent research center. It simply identifies the atomic number of the projected element by the prefixes un-, bi-, tri-, etc. The older system, invented by Mendeleev himself, uses eka- (and dva- if needed) to describe a hypothecated element by comparing it to the element directly “above” it in the periodic table, so that ekaxenon would describe projected element 86, later named radon after its discovery was confirmed. In this case, element 122 begins a new series of similar elements resembling the lanthanide and actinide series, and is termed ekathorium as being directly “below” thorium on the periodic table.
When “unbibium”/“ekathorium” is confirmed, its discoverer will have the right to nominate a permanent name, a la Polonium, Ytterbium, Einsteinium, etc.
Wait a minute – there are Jewish physicists? Tell me another one.
Seriously – if this is for real, isn’t it the sort of thing physicists dream of doing once in their careers? If they’ve found the fabled Transuranic Island of Stability, it’s like the recent confirmation of extrasolar planets. Wow.
If I’m not mistaken, nobody’s discovered a naturally-occurring element since 1939 (Francium).
I still think we should still have Unununium.
I submit, Holyshitium.
SCORE! In yer face, Tuckerfan! 
I propose Hfuhruhurrium, since it takes almost two brains to figure all this out.
I’ve only skimmed the article and don’t often read mass spectroscopy papers, but the signal seems a bit weak to my eyes and I’d be worried that it’s from some trace contaminent. Given just quite how astonishing this would be if true, it all seems publishable but that’s about it at this stage.
With the science out the way, we can now get down to the ad hominem stuff … 
The first author, Amnon Marinov, has form with this sort of claim. There’s been a long, dragged out controversy as to whether he first observed element 112 at CERN back in 1971. This 2001 IUPAC report (a pdf) on the matter rejects his claims with comments like this:
In less polite words, he was unjustifiably stretching what evidence he had.
However, the truly gobsmacking name on the author list is the seventh: R.V. Gentry. Robert Gentry is a trained nuclear physicist, but also a notorious Young Earth Creationist with a track record of dodgy research. talkorigins.org has good articles on his old “polonium halo” claims and his truly crap cosmological musings. (One of his papers on the latter counts as the single worst published paper I’ve ever stumbled across in a physics journal.)
Of course, despite the fact that Gentry believes that the Earth is no more than about 6000 years old, the current paper assumes the conventional timescales in reaching its estimate of the halflife. He’s sufficiently far down the author list that it may be unfair to hold him as signing up to every statement in the paper, but it does raise an amused eyebrow.
arXiv has its origins amongst particle physicists who had had the tradition dating back to the Sixties of physically circulating papers as preprints as soon as they were written. Submitting it to arXiv before sending it to a journal is just a continuation of that and utterly normal in many subfields.
Particle physicists being self-aggrandising? Never!
Well yes, and its often done in astronomy (putting it up early on arXiv that is, not too sure about physical preprints in astronomy – I’m sure it was done, but I’d have no clue.). I just like to spare myself the embarrasment of having to put up a replacement. Or the worry of someone using my results when they’ve not been reviewed…
Oh never. Never ever at all.
wanders off muttering about particle physicists
Atomic symbol Ju.