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Judith,
after 50 years of having churned out a lot
of new (macro?)-molecules and their industrial applications I came to the
conclusion that I don't believe in them. It is a nice setup of theories,
supported by measurements explained into that theory, calculations into matching
equations etc. but is it any close to what "really" is the case? A water
molecule does not consist of 2H amd 1O atoms, it
is an entity with no relationship in
characteristics to them and it
has to be destroyed to get data assignable
to those 'atoms' as originally being there. (Close enough to
QM?)
Spectroscopy is a nice explanation of irrelevant
findings. My macromolecules were 'simpler' than the bios, and yet too much
involved for any direct information - diffusion, secondary forces, the various
electrical/potential interferences, chemical changes, etc.
So: are there atoms, really, or we make some
observations leading to an explanation including such formations? We may be
wrong and our data refer to a 'pattern' of observables which is only part of
what's really going on (and hence the paradoxes, axioms, givens).
If I compare the current vision about
'matter' (macro/micro) with the vision 200 or 500 years ago, I can think with
awe of an image due to the knowledge (belief?) 500 years from now.
Or is our (reductionistic) science complete? Do
we know it all?
Forces (interconnections) 'inside' the
atom? assumed postulates that 'must be' to validate the hypothetical "truth".
Particles with Greek names? waves? Spin? EPR? the 'Cat'? Superstrings?
Btw. if you think about it: our "stellar"
material (all of it) is product of (atomic?) evolution - in those supernovas and
other astronomical sources we originate from. The fact that 'today' (in ~3b
years) we see no change in those patterns we observe within our 'scientific'
model, does not mean a thing. As a matter of fact: we do see changes:
radioactive mutation in atomic kinds, buildup and spontaneous decompositions,
(we just did not detect the causal determinism of them) - and we have no idea
what's going on "atomistically" in other 'parts' of the world. -
Fortunately.
We don't even know what is some miles below our
feet - or - what kind of 'life' may be in the (volcanic? or not) debth of the
oceans.
John M
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