I've been investigating the possibility that tetrahedral compounds might be relevant to the patterning of the nontraditional periodic kinships such as Knight's...
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JessT
yahganlang
Jun 9, 2010 2:22 pm
Well, yesterday I finished the 3D model of the 5-tet compound. What a chore! And the thing, made of printer paper, buckles and warps, a real pain in the...
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jess tauber
yahganlang
Jun 12, 2010 4:49 pm
June 15th, 1849. Would have been nice to say a prayer or 120 last year, but this list didn't yet exist. Thanks for the Left-Step table! It's just a jump to the...
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JessT
yahganlang
Jun 25, 2010 10:41 pm
Hope all of you are having a good holiday. I was just going through the The Periodic Table: Into the 21st Century again, and found something unexpected. In...
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jess tauber
yahganlang
Jun 26, 2010 6:22 pm
Well, I have a better handle on what is going on here. And it turns out we can add coordination-related effects of the f block to the mix. Each of the symmetry...
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Valery
vanalumerb
Jun 27, 2010 4:36 am
... Just look at the image of "even component matrix" generated by splitting Pascal Triangle that I recently posted on this blog (05/29/2010). First line of...
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JessT
yahganlang
Jun 27, 2010 5:01 am
So what do you think the physical interpretation is? Waste-not, want-not? Use everything? As they say, 'Who ordered that?'. Jess Tauber...
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JessT
yahganlang
Jul 1, 2010 3:29 am
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/06/100630132852.htm Hide your stuff inside uranium! Or not..... Jess Tauber...
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Richard
chemguy777
Jul 3, 2010 12:44 am
Hi Jess and Val. I have been corresponding with Maurice Kibler (in France) some time ago. He is associated with the Frech Atomic Agency and he has been very...
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JessT
yahganlang
Jul 3, 2010 1:15 am
I did hear back from Dr. Kibler a few days ago, and hope to get him involved. Thanks. Jess Tauber phonosemantics@......
Just on a whim I was trying out different numerical combinations, when I suddenly noticed an odd match. Don't remember if someone mentioned this to me earlier....
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Larry T
orahct@...
Jul 15, 2010 3:57 pm
That is good. As I told you earlier, 22/7=3,14285 and equal to perimeter of 90-gon, if I remember that correctly....
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JessT
yahganlang
Jul 20, 2010 11:59 pm
Last night I read, on the newsfeeds, a piece describing research on metalloproteins in extremophile archaea, a new method capable of scanning for all metals...
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JessT
yahganlang
Aug 25, 2010 9:18 pm
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/08/100825093253.htm I suspected that neutrinos (more specifically neutrino flux) might have been erroneously left out...
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Melinda Green
xyzrgb
Aug 26, 2010 1:26 am
Jess, I don't think this is a joke but I also don't think that there is anything about the standard model that is "seriously off". Like all models, the...
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Valery
vanalumerb
Aug 26, 2010 3:55 pm
I have heard about this couple of years ago, when they first notices such deviation in decay rates. This is interesting. What kind of error this may introduce...
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JessT
yahganlang
Aug 26, 2010 5:04 pm
Apparently increased flux of whatever this is represses decay. The cosmological equivalent of fluoridation. :-) Good thing, too- imagine if it were the other...
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Melinda Green
xyzrgb
Aug 26, 2010 10:55 pm
I don't think this will impact the general utility of radio-dating methods since the effect is very small but it could definitely put some limits on the...
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JessT
yahganlang
Sep 5, 2010 4:15 pm
Not exactly symmetrical, but will have to do. Here's one for the pot of magic math: The electrical system of atoms is supposed to break down around atomic...
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JessT
yahganlang
Sep 6, 2010 11:31 pm
See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Periodic_table_(crystal_structure) Now, look at Al and Pb, both face centered cubic. Down three rows and rightward one move....
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Valery
vanalumerb
Sep 7, 2010 7:14 pm
Those would be good questuons for prof. Bent. He knows all about secondary and tertiary relationships....
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JessT
yahganlang
Sep 9, 2010 11:23 pm
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/09/100909004112.htm So maybe different Aufbau anomalies, knight's moves, diagonals, etc? Different combining ratios...
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JessT
yahganlang
Sep 10, 2010 12:23 am
Interesting stuff on Wiki page on the fine-structure constant: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fine_structure_constant Down near the bottom of the Wiki article...
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Melinda Green
xyzrgb
Sep 10, 2010 9:34 pm
This was reported on Slashdot <http://science.slashdot.org/story/10/09/05/212252/Fine-Structure-Constant-Maybe-Not-So-Constant> on Tuesday but the...
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JessT
yahganlang
Sep 16, 2010 6:06 am
As a number of you must be aware, shell filling at atomic numbers 114 and 120 are supposed by some theoreticians to be anomalous, due to spin-orbit coupling. ...
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JessT
yahganlang
Sep 16, 2010 8:38 am
On 123. In my last posting I mentioned how, if one carried over the two right step shift into the g-block 123 would be equivalent to the beginning of the...
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JessT
yahganlang
Oct 25, 2010 10:47 pm
I was reading online Linus Pauling's notebooks (see http://osulibrary.oregonstate.edu/specialcollections/rnb/), and was particularly interested in sections...
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rihanij
Nov 9, 2010 3:28 am
May I direct you to this new paper <http://www.chem.helsinki.fi/~pyykko/pekka/PT.pdf> by Pekka Pyykko, Department of Chemistry, University of Helsinki,...
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JessT
yahganlang
Nov 9, 2010 3:32 am
Thanks for this- very interesting. I wonder whether any of these elements, however, can exist in the real world. I'd been in touch recently with Prof. Pyykko-...
