Regarding the reelection prospects of Bill Foster in the 14th district in Illinois, an article on the candidate mentions "An atypical politician, Foster can list among his endorsers not only the Illinois Farm Bureau but 31 Nobel Prize winners. Foster worked at Fermilab and helped discover the top quark, the heaviest known form of matter."
A commenter on Tommaso Dorigo's The Say Of The Week blog post noted, however, "Now that he has been an elected official, Mr. Foster must know that the heaviest element known to science is Governmentium."
I remember Governmentium from back in the day, and it is unclear who first discovered it, though it seems a whole lot of voters recalled it (Foster lost his reelection):
(Gv), has one neutron, 25 assistant neutrons, 88 deputy neutrons, and 198 assistant deputy neutrons, giving it an atomic mass of 312. These 312 particles are held together by forces called morons, which are surrounded by vast quantities of lepton-like particles called peons. Since Governmentium has no electrons, it is inert; however, it can be detected, because it impedes every action with which it comes into contact.
A minute amount of Governmentium can cause a reaction that would normally take less than a second to take from four days to four years to complete. Governmentium has a normal half-life of 2-6 years; it does not decay, but instead undergoes a reorganization in which a portion of the assistant neutrons and deputy neutrons exchange places. In fact, Governmentium's mass will actually increase over time, since each reorganization will cause more morons to become neutrons, forming isodopes.
This characteristic of moron promotion leads some scientists to believe that Governmentium is formed whenever morons reach a critical concentration. This hypothetical quantity is referred to as critical morass. When catalyzed with money, Governmentium becomes Administratium, an element that radiates just as much energy as Governmentium since it has half as many peons but twice as many morons
