Beautifully Symmetric
Earlier today, I got the pleasure to go from my Physical Chemistry class to the Chemistry & Biochemistry department building (which involves a good distance of walking, quite enjoyable on a day as beautiful as this one) with my professor, Xiaogang Peng (it's "Sho-gun," that's quite glorious in itself really - just that all those Roman letters have been transcribed to mean some significant phrase in Chinese ... life is full of metaphors and symbols - I hope to recognize them all).
We've been learning about molecular symmetry and how some electrons will not transfer between certain orbitals but others share electrons flippantly, so much so that the Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle (that it is impossible to determine the exact location and the exact momentum of a particle simultaneously - it just cannot be calculated with human mathematical skills) comes into play. This is quantum mechanics at its finest. Quantum has been a developing sector int he chemical and physical sciences over the past century and has provided multiple breakthroughs in novel and previously established (though not fully understood) theory.
Back to the discussion on route to CHBC ... we were discussing how nature has this inherent symmetry that has been one of the two major discoveries, the other being the existence of numerous constants (good for congruent calculations and observation of general equations) that enable linear (when you simpify several more complicated mathematical procedures, i.e. Taylor expansions, series, etc.) which has furthered science over the past century.
Nature's faithful execution of this magnificent order enables us to quantitize, qualify and then employ the analyses we run to better the human existance and knowledge base concerning the laws of the universe.
So many scientists are studying the character of God without even recognizing it - it's really a cool field to be in because the anaologies come so easily.
It just blows me away that the creator of mathematical organization is the same creator of the incomprehensible beauty of forests and mountains, Him who has shaped the complexity man and the mystery of love - to Him be the glory, forever and ever.
This is worship.
We've been learning about molecular symmetry and how some electrons will not transfer between certain orbitals but others share electrons flippantly, so much so that the Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle (that it is impossible to determine the exact location and the exact momentum of a particle simultaneously - it just cannot be calculated with human mathematical skills) comes into play. This is quantum mechanics at its finest. Quantum has been a developing sector int he chemical and physical sciences over the past century and has provided multiple breakthroughs in novel and previously established (though not fully understood) theory.
Back to the discussion on route to CHBC ... we were discussing how nature has this inherent symmetry that has been one of the two major discoveries, the other being the existence of numerous constants (good for congruent calculations and observation of general equations) that enable linear (when you simpify several more complicated mathematical procedures, i.e. Taylor expansions, series, etc.) which has furthered science over the past century.
Nature's faithful execution of this magnificent order enables us to quantitize, qualify and then employ the analyses we run to better the human existance and knowledge base concerning the laws of the universe.
So many scientists are studying the character of God without even recognizing it - it's really a cool field to be in because the anaologies come so easily.
It just blows me away that the creator of mathematical organization is the same creator of the incomprehensible beauty of forests and mountains, Him who has shaped the complexity man and the mystery of love - to Him be the glory, forever and ever.
This is worship.
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