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 <[email protected]> > > Date: 19 April 2013 10:05:18 GMT+01:00 > > To: Peter Artymiuk <[email protected]> > > 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 <[email protected]> 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: [email protected] Phone: +49 551 39 33059 Fax: +49 551 39 22582 Dept. Homepage: http://shelx.uni-ac.gwdg.de/ ---
