Re:Super-Saturated Chemistry
by pdonis on Monday January 23, 2017 @07:45PM
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> Quantum mechanics can and does predict every element on the periodic table. Whether we can calculate what it predicts at the present time is a different matter entirely.
If we can't calculate what it predicts, then we don't know that what it predicts matches what we actually observe. We might believe, with high confidence, that QM, once we can calculate what it predicts, will in fact predict what we observe; but until we've actually done it, we don't know for sure.
[Edit: I see GFK_of_xmaspast already made this point.]
If we can't calculate what it predicts, then we don't know that what it predicts matches what we actually observe. We might believe, with high confidence, that QM, once we can calculate what it predicts, will in fact predict what we observe; but until we've actually done it, we don't know for sure.
[Edit: I see GFK_of_xmaspast already made this point.]