The Structure Lacuna

International Journal of Molecular Sciences

Jan C.A. Boeyens¹ 

[1] Unit for Advanced Scholarship, University of Pretoria, Lynnwood Road, Pretoria 0002, South Africa

关键词: golden ratio;    molecular symmetry;    spin function;   

DOI  :  10.3390/ijms13079081

来源: mdpi

【 摘 要 】

Molecular symmetry is intimately connected with the classical concept of three-dimensional molecular structure. In a non-classical theory of wave-like interaction in four-dimensional space-time, both of these concepts and traditional quantum mechanics lose their operational meaning, unless suitably modified. A required reformulation should emphasize the importance of four-dimensional effects like spin and the symmetry effects of space-time curvature that could lead to a fundamentally different understanding of molecular symmetry and structure in terms of elementary number theory. Isolated single molecules have no characteristic shape and macro-biomolecules only develop robust three-dimensional structure in hydrophobic response to aqueous cellular media.

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