The real periodic table?
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what do y'all think?
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@Regina I just listened to 50% of the Joe Rogan - Terrence Howard interview and in my humble opinion is that this guy just talks around in circles. He's got a few interesting ideas, but when asked to explain himself he throws out a bunch of addition unrelated babble. He is about as coherent as Charlie Manson.
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The periodic table is mostly a visual index of various facts about the elements. Terence is welcome to reformat this index- from the clip, it seems he wants an "expanding" circle based on harmonic frequencies formed by various elements.
The reformat of the elements isn't that big a deal, the question is can his harmonic periodic circle give original and correct predictions of elemental properties and be a usable reference. The placement of a known element and a hypothetical element can be used to infer various properties- he will need to show he can match this, and then do more.
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@JulofEnoch For the low low price of just $10 you can have your own copy!!!
https://philosophy-org.myshopify.com/products/the-russell-periodic-chart-of-the-elements-1Yes, the proof is in the pudding. Anyone can reorganize the elements into whatever table they want, date of discover, alphabetical, whatever. The important thing as you mentioned is whether or not a particular layout is useful. With Howard's table i don't know one way or another. I haven't found an explanation.
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@PunkinEater Thank you guys.
I was out with young people last week and was trying to not be a fuddy duddy. I tried to talk about Ray Peat. No bites. They came back with this guy as their genius.Sorry to have bothered with this.
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Chemists generally don't use the periodic table. Aside from looking up molar weights for stochiometry. Inorg bros probably use it often, maybe physchem bros do. Organic world is much less diverse with carbon, hydrogen, nitrogen, and oxygen making most common structures.
I recommend focusing on structure instead of elements, though I see how inorganic exploration is more fun in the beginning. Subatomic stuff is mostly voodoo bullshit. The view of chemistry as a science instead of a highly technical art is harmful. It's more about how than why.
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@psi Slightly confused why you claim chemistry to be art?
