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Every attempt will be made to operate with the longitudinal feedback system on during all user shifts November 29-December 4. If you don't know, don't worry. Even three-object systems are so complex that they are considered mathematically unsolvable. Since the excited electrons in lithium can jump up into any of a handful of electron orbitals to form the hollow atom, and each of the resulting configurations can decay into any of several final states, the possible energy changes within the system are numerous. Making sense of all this requires excellent resolution of the final states, which are studied by measuring the electron energy distribution as the hollow lithium decays.