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Maxwell's demon and the history of the second law of thermodynamics
I recently reread Warmth Disperses and Time Passes: The History of Heat by Hans Christian von Baeyer As a popular book, it provides a beaut...
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This week Nobel Prizes will be announced. I have not done predictions since 2020 . This is a fun exercise. It is also good to reflect on w... -
Is it something to do with breakdown of the Born-Oppenheimer approximation? In molecular spectroscopy you occasionally hear this term thro... -
Nitrogen fluoride (NF) seems like a very simple molecule and you would think it would very well understood, particularly as it is small enou...
I am guilty of half that list. Particularly painful were not knowing things deeply, not interacting enough with experimentalists, letting shyness cause genuine problems, and being out of shape.
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