ACETYLIDE PHOTOCHEMISTRY

I wonder if any one of the various acetylides can be photochemically induced to react from within their respective lattices. To induce the component acetylides to react with each other in a massively parallel photochemical "addition" across the given lattice. What might one get? Perhaps graphite and alkaline earth metal. I know when you add water to calcium carbide you get methane that can be ignited to form an illuminating light and heat.

HUMAN POPULATION

Human population almost stays constant, under a billion people, from 10,000 BC to 1830...then it starts to expand from 1830 to 1920 and it doubles to about 2 billion by 1920...then it becomes exponential to 1980, about doubling from 2 billion in 1920 to 4.5 billion in 1980...after 1980 it becomes a delta function as it increases from 4.5 billion in 1980 to about over 10 billion expected after 2050. Clearly we need to dramatically develop understanding among humans before it is too late. Will the will of the human race be strong enough to manage and handle all of these people. Will there be enough housing to save these people from devastating hardship. We will only find out as history unfolds. I see people I have lived with here at Milica's who are now homeless around here...but some humans cause themselves problems like this by not acting responsibly...but there are many children and mothers and other people who are victims of a brutal World out there.

LOGIC of CARBON

Are there "missing" allotropes of C? Structurally what form would they take on. The answer is clear...the average polygon size per structural unit and the averaged connectivity, over the stoichiometry of the net, are the key factors. Carbon occurs in 6-gons and later as fullerenes and nanotubes admixed with 5-gons. Networks that are comprised of 6-gons only are the most likely networks to happen...i.e. graphene and diamond and "the hexagonites". Taking a step away from this, are nets comprised of 6-gons exclusively admixed with 8-gons or 4-gons...i.e. "the glitter series networks"....why 8-gons and 4-gons? Because polygon circuits of even number lend themselves to patterns of higher symmetries than those patterns with 7-gons etc and carbon grows or crystallizes in patterns tending to high symmetry. But the overarching logic of C, from organic chemistry principles, is that if there is a pattern of C, known for 1000's of years, comprised of cyclohexane rings...and there is an alternative pattern of C, known for 1000's of years, comprised of benzene-like building blocks...then by logic there ought to be a allotrope of C in between, comprised of cyclohexadiene-like building blocks...i.e. "the glitter series networks"...they are the most favorable networks by reasoning with organic chemistry principles. That was my whole way of reasoning about the logic of C from the troubled days that I had as a graduate student.