The Mysterious Quantum
Twentieth-century physics was dominated by two theories which came into existence at the turn of the century. The two theories, known as quantum mechanics and relativistic mechanics respectively, developed as refinements of Newtonian mechanics, the reigni
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The Quantum Gamble
The Quantum Gamble
Jan C.A. Boeyens
The Quantum Gamble
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Jan C.A. Boeyens Centre for the Advancement of Scholarship University of Pretoria Pretoria, South Africa
ISBN 978-3-319-41620-5 DOI 10.1007/978-3-319-41621-2
ISBN 978-3-319-41621-2 (eBook)
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Foreword
Quantum chemistry has developed to an extent that provides scientists with detailed information for understanding structures and properties of molecular compounds and assemblies, and software has been developed that allows to compute chemical systems and their properties in good agreement with experimental observations. Theoretical and computational chemistry has become an integral part of the education of scientists, and the computation of molecular and electronic structures, relative energies and pathways for transformations is an important tool for the interpretation of experimental data and the optimisation and even the ‘rational design’ of new systems in many areas of chemistry. Jan Boeyens’ books discuss the fundamental basis of the physics of matter and quantum theory; their basis is a deep knowledge of the history of science, and they discuss features in quantum theory that are not much remembered and not directly included in modern computational chemistry—Jan’s books and ideas are not mainstream; they are disputable and therefore are interesting and scientifically important. A computational model is v
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not necessarily related to truth; its quality derives from the accuracy with which it simulates or predicts experimental observations. One of Jan Boeyens’ concepts was to relate simplistic models as well as current computational chemistry approaches to basic notions of qua
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