The cycles of accretion, nuclear interconversions and cooling of matter is far from complete but if we fast forward the universe by n billions of years, it's remarkable how much of it turns out to be crystalline. A bit like a crystallization trial at a cosmic scale. Does assume an expanding(-enough) cosmological model though. I should have made clear that the humor was well taken.
Best regards, Navdeep --- On Fri, Apr 19, 2013 at 03:11:13PM +0100, Peter Artymiuk wrote: > Just to clarify, Jeremy was not being serious, but imagining what an awkward > / obnoxious grant reviewer might have said in 1913. But your points would be > valuable in rebutting such a view > > Pete > > > > On 19 Apr 2013, at 11:28, Navdeep Sidhu wrote: > > > Dear Pet, > > > > On the contrary, far as I know, nature seems to require most solids we see > > around us to be crystalline. And much of the rest is either gaseous or > > plasma. Hence, by the reasoning proposed, we are led to suspect a different > > conclusion: that it's studies dealing with the remaining state that have > > "little general applicability as the requirement for objects to force > > themselves into" the disordered arrays of the liquid state "is an absurd > > limitation." (However, I'd support funding it nevertheless.) > > > > Best regards, > > Navdeep > > > > > > --- > > On Fri, Apr 19, 2013 at 10:14:04AM +0100, Peter Artymiuk wrote: > >> Another of my colleagues, Jeremy Craven, is an NMR spectroscopist and > >> bioinformatician. He is in referee mode at present and comments: > >> > >> > >>> From: Jeremy Craven <c.j.cra...@sheffield.ac.uk> > >>> Date: 19 April 2013 10:05:18 GMT+01:00 > >>> To: Peter Artymiuk <p.artym...@sheffield.ac.uk> > >>> Subject: Re: Fwd: popular piece on X-ray crystallography > >>> > >>> I suspect this technique will have little general applicability as the > >>> requirement for objects to force themselves into ordered arrays is an > >>> absurd limitation. I would not support funding it. > >>> > >>> Jeremy > >> > >> > >> I fear he may be right > >> > >> best wishes > >> Pet > >> > >> > >> > >> > >> On 19 Apr 2013, at 09:53, David Briggs wrote: > >> > >>> Following on from that - readers may be interested in Stephen Curry's > >>> post in the Guardian, regarding the Crystallography exhibit at the > >>> London Science Museum. > >>> > >>> http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/occams-corner/2013/apr/19/1 > >>> > >>> regards, > >>> > >>> Dave > >>> > >>> ============================ > >>> David C. Briggs PhD > >>> http://about.me/david_briggs > >>> > >>> > >>> On 19 April 2013 09:44, Peter Artymiuk <p.artym...@sheffield.ac.uk> wrote: > >>>>> > >>>> > >>>> Dear all > >>>> > >>>> In Britain there is a free newspaper that you can pick up on buses > >>>> called the Metro. My colleague Geoff Ford pointed out this short feature > >>>> on the history X-ray crystallography in last Monday's Metro newspaper. I > >>>> think it's rather good. > >>>> > >>>> http://www.cosmonline.co.uk/blog/2013/04/14/conquering-realm-invisible > >>>> > >>>> best wishes > >>>> Pete > >>>> > >>>> > >>>> > >>>> Prof Peter Artymiuk > >>>> Krebs Institute > >>>> Department of Molecular Biology & Biotechnology > >>>> University of Sheffield > >>>> Sheffield > >>>> S10 2TN > >>>> ENGLAND > > > > > > --- > > Navdeep Sidhu > > Departments of Structural Chemistry > > & Pediatrics II > > University of Goettingen > > Office Address: > > Institute of Inorganic Chemistry > > Tammannstrasse 4 > > 37077 Goettingen > > Germany > > Email: nsi...@shelx.uni-ac.gwdg.de > > Phone: +49 551 39 33059 > > Fax: +49 551 39 22582 > > Dept. Homepage: http://shelx.uni-ac.gwdg.de/ > > --- > > Prof Peter Artymiuk > Krebs Institute > Department of Molecular Biology & Biotechnology > University of Sheffield > Sheffield > S10 2TN > ENGLAND -- --- Dr. med. Navdeep Sidhu Departments of Structural Chemistry & Pediatrics II University of Goettingen Office Address: Institute of Inorganic Chemistry Tammannstrasse 4 37077 Goettingen Germany Email: nsi...@shelx.uni-ac.gwdg.de Phone: +49 551 39 33059 Fax: +49 551 39 22582 Dept. Homepage: http://shelx.uni-ac.gwdg.de/ ---
