I'm Totally Serious, Bro

A new element being added to the periodic table is like that new  kid who sat next to you in class that no one liked. You know, the one that always smelled like fritos, and always did horrible cartman impressions? Yea, it’s like that, but instead of his name being something like kevin, mike, or joe–it would be ”number four”

via BBC  

“To create element 112, Professor Hofmann’s team used a 120m-long particle accelerator to fire a beam of charged zinc atoms (or zinc ions) at lead atoms. Nuclei of the two elements merged, or fused, to form the nucleus of the new element.

These very large and heavy nuclei are also very unstable. They begin to fall apart or “decay” very soon after being formed – within a few milliseconds, in this case.

This releases energy, which scientists can measure to find out the size of the decaying nucleus.

But such experiments produce very few successful fusions, and scientists need increasingly powerful accelerators to run experiments for longer and find the elusive, unstable elements.”"

As smart as scientists are, they suck real hard at making up awesome names.