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Tue 2006-05-16 12:25 |
Based on the fact that I persevered through the chemistry and now I'm bosun on the good ship Tecnai sailing the stormy seas of quantum mechanics, I am now trying to do exactly that about a Windows system, but right from the bottom, as in what the electrons are doing. (Well what other bit am I going to start from? :)) My progress so far is tortoise-like, that is to say, slow but difficult to stop. It's inefficient and most people would probably consider it a waste of time compared to paying somebody else to doing it for me, but I don't care, I want to know. Maybe I should write a book when I've finished.
Though the Chemistry journey doesn't ever really end; it loops back to the beginning. You start off being told "it just is", then you get taught about atoms, then you get taught about orbitals, then you get taught about quantum mechanics and how to do it by maths, then once again "it just is" and this is just the best model we've got. But somehow maybe that fourteen year old intuition for what orbitals look like is the point of it all; so it comes full circle in the good and bad way. |
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