sucker for personalities, but this looks like star trel replicaotor stuff https://www.chem.gla.ac.uk/cronin/

what say you folks? i have this intuitive sense of chemistry as a kind of rube goldberg machine, reactions upon reactions, kind of thinking of membranes and energy transfer in batteries and so on. this is a departure for my intuition

Is there an actual science question? Just posting links isn’t enough - we expect things to be discussed to be posted here.

well i dont know, i just read all these pop sci books through the years and isn't noticeable chemistry tends to ossify eg 90s organic chemistry. politics as well, the field isnt constrained only by science questions

3 hours ago, crandom said:

sucker for personalities, but this looks like star trel replicaotor stuff https://www.chem.gla.ac.uk/cronin/

what say you folks? i have this intuitive sense of chemistry as a kind of rube goldberg machine, reactions upon reactions, kind of thinking of membranes and energy transfer in batteries and so on. this is a departure for my intuition

3 hours ago, crandom said:

well i dont know, i just read all these pop sci books through the years and isn't noticeable chemistry tends to ossify eg 90s organic chemistry. politics as well, the field isnt constrained only by science questions

You are quite right Chemistry has recently been undergoing a mind blowing rennaisance, courtesy all the modern tools provided by applied Physics.

If you are genuinely interested and want to know more, look out this book from Cambridge University press.

Chapters 12 through 14 are relevant, but there is lots of other interesting new stuff well explained in it.