Thursday, September 4, 2014

Scientists (or at Least Theoreticians) as Cartographers

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An interesting (and seemingly eternal) philosophical debate in science is that of scientific realism versus instrumentalism . My own exper...
Sunday, June 8, 2014

Midwest Theoretical Chemistry Conference

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First, apologies for the lack of posts lately, I've been quite busy with other obligations. I hope to have some more content up reasona...
Friday, May 2, 2014

Further Evidence of Element 117

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Physical Review Letters just published a paper in which an international group in Germany claimed to have repeated the 2010 results of the...
Wednesday, April 9, 2014

Discovery of a Tetraquark

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Interesting discovery coming out of CERN here (CERN's press release here ). The scientists claim they discovered a four-quark partic...
Tuesday, April 1, 2014

Is Spin a Relativistic Effect? Levy-Leblond and First Order Wave Equations

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One of the earliest concepts we cover in atomic structure is the concept of electron spin. We are taught to think of the electron's spi...
Thursday, March 27, 2014

Discovery of Oxygen

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This tweet has been making the rounds today. RT @greatbritain : UK discovered more elements in periodic table than any other country pic.twi...
Monday, March 24, 2014

Surprising Article about Californium Chemistry

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I just saw an interesting article from the RSC at Chemistry World based on this article in Nature Chemistry about the chemistry of calif...