LOOKING GLASS MEDICINE

Yet someone may have not taken the sleeping medicine "thalidomide" thinking correctly perhaps that "looking glass medicine" is not fit to take. Echoing the sentiment in "Alice in Wonderland" when Alice states that "perhaps looking glass milk is not fit to drink".

WELL IN ADVANCE

Hi. Hope you are doing OK. I write to talk about "thoughts". By 1990 when I was a teaching assistant at Cornell.....I started then to "think" about the "photon hypothesis" and the "matter wave hypothesis" and I wondered in 1990 if there was any other ideas there. 17 years later I published the "matter wave-light wave" hypothesis. It may not matter much but it was 17 years in the formulation. Similarly in 1999 during the time I was experiencing some trouble I had "thoughts" about the fine structure constant and I even told somebody then that I never cared to visit room "137" at Baker Lab ever....I meant it as a joke. Then 19 years later the fine structure constant paper was written by me. Also I had Eddington's book "New Pathways in Science" that I bought in Bloomington, IN when I was visiting my difficult brother at IU.....and this was in about 1992 that I was reading Eddington back at Baker Lab and "thinking" about his constants and wondering what I could do with them....Then 26 years later....in 2018....the electron-proton mass ratio paper was published by me.

FINE STRUCTURE CONSTANT

That the fine structure constant is nearly equal to a simple series in powers of (e)x(pi) suggests a kind of Paradise that existed early on and that descended in to a Universe of imperfection and increasing chaos....with the idea that at some time in the future things may revert to a Paradise again when the fine structure constant reverts back to a value that is perfectly equal to a simple series in powers of (e)x(pi)….at least that is what I hope for in my prayers.

STORY of MOLECULES

Each molecule has a story. Some molecules have little stories and some molecules have involved stories. You covered the story of thalidomide in your book, "The Same and not the Same". It is the most sickening story. For planet hunters the spectroscopic signature for the water molecule means life...as does the molecule oxygen, The cyanide ion means death.....The molecule ziprasidone means keeping non-sense in my life in check and it means, or drives me to be creative and mathematical...it also keeps my weight down. The many carbohydrates mean life-giving metabolism. The molecule carbon dioxide means photosynthesis and solar energy conversion. the chlorine molecule meant death in WWI. While nitrogen means agricultural sustenance through the Haber process. The many molecules of medicine can mean life-saving cures or management or alleviation of disease including quinine that is used to treat malaria victims. The vitamins are life sustaining molecules. Hydrogen sulfide means stinkiness combined with death. And on it goes.

CHEMISTRY MATTERS

Take a look at the April, 2018 NobelPrize.org Newsletter. It is entitled "Chemistry Matters" as a direct counterpoint to one of Bob Hazen's most popular books "Science Matters". The book "Science Matters" covers a lot of science.....i.e. physics, geology, biology....but it misses, or lacks in, coverage of chemistry. Perhaps Hazen does not like chemistry and that is why his book "Science Matters" is written the way that it is.....with little about chemistry in it. There is a 20 year plus homeless guy here in Oceanside named Patrick S. Patrick S. hangs out at the OPL every day and is usually there all the hours it is open rather than be outside. He studies physics and mathematics exclusively, and current events in the newspapers. He has a B.A. from Waterloo in mathematics (that is what he claims). He claims he is Canadian and very proud of it. Patrick claims he quotes Rutherford when he tells me that "all of science is physics and the rest of things is just stamp collecting" and he is dedicated to that premise. He reads voraciously at the library day in and day out when he is not sleeping. And he only reads about and does physics and mathematics in his readings and problem solving. And he never, never does anything new he just goes over and over again reading about long established results in physics and mathematics. I have asked him sometimes why he does not apply for Social Security Retirement (SSR) to give him a chance to live inside somewhere. He is now 69. He just turns up his nose at my suggestion and says "O, I may do that some time" and walks away. Anyway, the April, 2018 NobelPrize.org newsletter was meant to convey the message that chemistry does matter especially so in the month of the diamond.