--- On Thu, 10/30/08, Mike Tintner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > What are the shapes/forms (and range of shapes/forms) of > atoms?
The shapes are given by solving Schrodinger's equation. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schr%C3%B6dinger_equation > And how would you or physics derive the properties of > different materials from these shapes? By solving the equation for millions of atoms on a very large computer. Computing chemical and physical properties has never been done this way because unfortunately the computation time increases exponentially with the number of particles. > where will the S&P 500 > be at the end of Tuesday? Sorry, I would need a computer much bigger than the universe to compute that (and it probably wouldn't finish running by Tuesday). -- Matt Mahoney, [EMAIL PROTECTED] ------------------------------------------- agi Archives: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/303/=now RSS Feed: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/303/ Modify Your Subscription: https://www.listbox.com/member/?member_id=8660244&id_secret=117534816-b15a34 Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com
