The Curious Case of Polywater
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The Curious Case of Polywater
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#2Reminds me of a lot of political discourse - it is easy to be skeptical of people you want to be wrong, it is hard to be skeptical of people you agree with.
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#3Reminds me of a lot of political discourse - it is easy to be skeptical of people you want to be wrong, it is hard to be skeptical of people you agree with.
Known as confirmation bias.
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#4Heh - spoilers for Cat's Cradle.
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#5Even more curious is that if Peter Kollman (referenced below) hadn't died of cancer, he would likely have shared this year's Nobel Prize for molecular dynamics:
http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v233/n5321/abs/233550a0...
Whoever said there are no second acts in America was crazy.
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#6lets hope graphene is real :)
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#7Heh - spoilers for Cat's Cradle.
Yeah, I was thinking that the plot sounded interesting and I should look for the book... then he said how it ends. Poop.
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#8With any of these scientific breakthrough the proof is in the pudding. They've got to get some sort of prototype invention that uses their science to validate it. If they can't get their prototype device to work then something's wrong with the science.
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#9Heh - spoilers for Cat's Cradle.
In the book, it didn't really freeze the oceans "in an instant." It took several days.
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#10This book is an excellent account of the whole fiasco:
http://www.amazon.com/Polywater-Felix-Franks/dp/0262560291/r...