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(-eno
Boaz Shaanan sent me a nice reply about my comments below and gently mentioned
that Debye was pursuing Bohrs orbits theory - not yet orbitals which came
later.
So this was an incorrect term which I used. The difference is something like
Orbits - well defined path of electron round the nucleus
Or
James's original rather short comment about Debye's key observation in 1915 was
clearly casting in to the CCP4BB fish pond to see who would bite. I guess I was
that fish.
There seems to be some confusion over dates (1914 or 1915) but this is not
important. I agree that determining the size of
