Wednesday, March 24, 2021

TETRAHEDRANEITES & BOROTETRAHEDRANEITES

Replacing the atomic sites in the C diamond polytypes with tetrahedrane-like sites...one would get the corresponding tetrahedraneites. Also the B-Cl molecular structure is comprised of a borotetrahedrane-like B-4 substructure, which could be the basis for borotetrahedraneite patterns patterned on the diamond polytypes as B allotropes. I wonder if any of these patterns or allotropes is real or could be real as nanocrystals or microcrystals or macrocrystals.

Sunday, March 14, 2021

W.O.R.M. and O.H.

Heaviside cryptically used the acronym W.O.R.M. later in life...perhaps he meant "Waserite" or "Moravia" when he wrote this expression...or perhaps he meant "Walter" or "Michael"...MJB 

DE BROGLIE & EDDINGTON

I learned about de Broglie's formula at the University of Kentucky and at Cornell University while teaching freshman chemistry students. In about 1991 or so I thought that I "saw" some alternative formula to de Broglie's formula but it took another 15 years, until 2006, that I finally discovered the matter wave-light wave formula and wrote it up...Eddington and his ratios I discovered in 1992 in a used paperback book store in Bloomington, IN near Indiana University. I found an Eddington book, "New Pathways in Physics" inside the store and there discovered his curious formulas. I then bought this book and brought it back with me to Ithaca, NY where I was a doctoral student in chemistry at Cornell University. Later in 1992 while at Cornell I thought that I "saw" something unusual in the Eddington ratio formulas...but it was not until 2016-2019, some 24-27 years later that I actually discovered the corresponding Eddington ratio mathematical approximants and wrote this all down...MJB.