RUSSIA and AUSTRALIA

Russia has too much natural resources and too much land area to be a single country. The USA should cause the breakup of Russia in to several smaller entities. 13 time zones span Russia...it is too much land area for one nation. The natural resources...forest products, oil and natural gas, vast mineral stores, gem stones, coal, water...it should be divided up in to several smaller nation-states and shared democratically with all the peoples of Earth. There are about 150 million people living in Russia...1.42 billion in PROC and 1.34 billion in India and 0.262 billion people in Indonesia 0.192 billion in Pakistan and 0.191 billion in Nigeria and 0,164 billion people in Bangladesh...Russia and Australia (e.g. 23 million) should be open to mass migrations by these people...who can have the option of relocating to Russia or Australia to share in a better life with lower population density and abundant natural resources.

MONOGRAPH

The classic monographs in chemistry and physics are the refined nearly perfect result of the many approximate journal articles on a given subject. Usually the lead scientist in any given field does the monograph by gathering all the relevant, however approximate and unrefined, journal pieces and condensing all that information in to a refined and scientifically precise book on the subject. Pauling's monographs were like that and Lipscomb's great work followed this process. And your monographs followed along these lines. Edited books are different...they are comprised of approximate and unrefined book chapters...some chapters are far removed from the title and theme of the edited book sometimes . Edited books are like mini-journal ithematic issues really. I want to do a "collected works" book comprised of my articles on carbon. I have asked Ashish Kumar at Apple Academic Press to go along with such a plan for a book. Ashish says that he publishes only new material and is not interested in such a book project. Such a book project would only be warranted, in reality, if one or more of my C models actually became true.

CHEMISTRY

Linus Pauling was the greatest proponent of chemistry in all history. If people would read Pauling's books they might understand chemistry better. Chemistry is the basis for spectroscopy that is used by the planet hunters searching for Earth-like planets. Chemistry is most of the basis for crystallography used by people making and packaging new and old medicines and materials. Chemistry is the basis for the Haber process used to tremendous effect in agriculture. Thermodynamics is largely a part of chemistry and is the basis for mineralogy, and low temperature phenomena. Chemistry is synthesis and isolation and separation of medicines. Chemistry is analysis like mass spectroscopy used to great effect in materials and molecular science. Pauling explained everything perfectly well in simple language...Chemistry was the basis for the nuclear test ban treaty in 1962.

HAMILTON

You had a book by Simon Altman circulating in your group for a while about quaternions and the imaginary unit "i". I wish I had that book. Altman explained that quaternions were a rotation operator that when applied to a vector in Cartesian space would act to rotate the 3-vector through a quarter rotation in 3-space.....and he explained that the imaginary unit does the same thing to the unit vector in the complex plane. There was some reason why a quarter rotation was so important in his physical theory (it was Hamilton's idea)….I tried once to follow Hamilton's quaternion theory but I gave up.....it is comprised of the unit vectors (of i, j and k) and the imaginary unit. I now forget exactly what the theory was....It was supposed to be a more general theory of motion than Newtonian mechanics. I do have a book here that I could dig up and read. I am not requesting you here to send me that book.

OUTWARDLY

The hottest area of science today is in astronomy. The (1) search for new planets and extraterrestrial life and (2) search for new physical laws in different times and places.....these are the greatest life-changing discoveries of the next generation of people. They may change humanity more profoundly than the 20th century discoveries did. But the new discoveries will be supported by and based upon the discoveries of the 20th century indeed. There is also the question of life extension and what might happen in today's medical research....maybe aging can be reversed eventually. Probably will cause a lot of social problems. Based upon Hubble Space telescope data.....from a possibly fake internet report I received....there may possibly be different laws of physics in different times and places in the observable Universe. But the internet reports I see are not verifiably real....I would have to check the major newspapers at the library some time. But perhaps the laws of physics have not always been the same as they are at the present time and place. There is developing a big dispute about how much of the Universe is not atoms and photons and is what is called "dark matter" and "dark energy" and the dispute about this is opening up a real opportunity for new astronomers to make big discoveries.