In any discourse of science, only one flaw is enough to discard a scientific theory or a scientific system. Unfortunately, the periodic table, the fundamental base of chemistry, is still suffering from 19 flaws (i.e., problems), although it has already gone through over 150 years after its functional exploration in 1869. This allows critics to raise legitimate questions: how can a scientific entity like the periodic table survive with a shocking number of flaws? Or, can it be regarded as a scientific system at all?  

The problem mainly lies in the subjective-objective dichotomy. Elements are the fundamental building blocks of the universe possessing billions of galaxies with trillions of stars. Being a natural property of the universe, the periodic system of the elements must not be studied with subjectivity, as it deals with naturally objective phenomena. We can only explain objectively what nature is or does, but we can’t define nature in our subjective ways, nor can we dictate to nature what she will do, how she will behave, or why she will act. If a more advanced civilization residing in any other part of the universe observes us, they must ridicule human intellectuality which is still struggling for an objective periodic system having a legacy of 19 subjective problems. 

In fact, the periodic table is a multidisciplinary system, as mathematics theorizes it, physics explains it, and chemistry uses it. Removal of all the problems of the periodic table demands interdisciplinary interventions. Analysis of the chemical behavioural patterns, quantum mechanical modeling of the physical atoms, and mathematical functional relations of the elemental properties altogether serve as the base of the periodic system as well as the basis for solutions to its problems.  

Defining a problem is the first step in solving the problem. Unlike social science, physical science needs to define a problem mathematically since mathematics is the language of nature. Also, here a problem can’t be claimed to be solved unless and until it is mathematically resolved. When mathematical solutions get matched with empirical findings, then we obtain a flawless scientific system governed by a sound scientific theory involving fundamental laws of natural universality.  

In the known 10,000 years’ history of human civilization and 500 years’ history of modern science, we have explored a remarkable number of fundamental laws like laws of motion, laws of gravitation, laws of light, laws of energy, laws of gas, laws of sound, laws of electricity, laws of electromagnetism, laws of thermodynamics, laws of fluid dynamics, laws of relativity, laws of quantum mechanics, laws of chemical combination, laws of cosmology, and so on. But, laws of elements are still missing from the discourse of natural science. Regarding the elements, of which all visible matter of the whole universe is composed, no set of fundamental laws has been unbundled with a universal theoretical framework yet.   

For the first time in the history of science, this book attempts to propose ‘the laws of the elements’ under ‘the theory of universal atomic succession’ in order to study the elements of the universe systemically and systematically. This book reveals that the elements of the universe are disciplined under 14 functional relations among 19 variables, which are governed by 7 fundamental laws. In functional consequence, the seventh law has emerged as ‘the new periodic law of the elements’.

It required 25 years to identify and define all 19 problems (7 theoretical limitations and 12 structural defects) of the modern periodic table, as well as to find functional and objective solutions to them. As a cardinal output of the 25-year scientific research, this book also proposes a flawless ‘fundamental periodic system of the elements’, resolving all the 19 problems of the modern periodic table.   

For intellectual property security, the first publication of this book appears with a very concise and limited version. The second (elaborate) version will be released soon after the subject matter of the book is published in a peer-reviewed journal.  

A long hundred years ago, in 1925, human civilization entered the quantum mechanical age. In this century, the periodic table has already completed its seventh period (i.e., the last natural period), having all the pertinent patterns, models, and relations examined and validated. Now, it’s time to have an integrated understanding of the physical, chemical, and mathematical reality of the periodic system observed through the cosmological perspective with a philosophical insight. Otherwise, the purity of natural science will be compromised enough to question the intellectual capability of today’s scientific community by the intelligent minds of tomorrow.