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Bobby. Moderator Offline Australian Politics Posts: 105326 Melbourne Gender:	Science thread Jan 5^th, 2025 at 9:56pm Brian Cox's Honest Opinion Of Oppenheimer
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Bobby. Moderator Offline Australian Politics Posts: 105326 Melbourne Gender:	Re: Science thread Reply #2 - Jan 5^th, 2025 at 10:03pm Why do Transition Metals Have Variable Oxidation States?
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Bobby. Moderator Offline Australian Politics Posts: 105326 Melbourne Gender:	Re: Science thread Reply #5 - Jan 5^th, 2025 at 10:07pm Why do "Useless" Neutrinos Exist?
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Bobby. Moderator Offline Australian Politics Posts: 105326 Melbourne Gender:	Re: Science thread Reply #6 - Jan 5^th, 2025 at 10:13pm How the Higgs Mechanism Give Things Mass.
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Bobby. Moderator Offline Australian Politics Posts: 105326 Melbourne Gender:	Re: Science thread Reply #7 - Jan 5^th, 2025 at 10:24pm How do Electron Microscopes Work? 🔬🛠🔬 Taking Pictures of Atoms
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Re: Science thread
Reply #9 - Jan 5^th, 2025 at 11:00pm

chemistry -

I was watching Hybridization of atomic orbitals YouTube videos and one
mentioned the time independent Schrodinger equation and Hamiltonian mechanics used to derive them –
Here at 5:21 and 5:35

Then I went to here:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hamiltonian_mechanics

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schr%C3%B6dinger_equation

and realised I was way out of my depth. LOL
At least some videos tried to simplify it:

I’m glad I didn’t try to study chemistry any more than I did at Uni –
I did some papers in organic and inorganic chemistry.
I never would have passed at the higher levels
as Chemistry is often regarded as the hardest of subjects.
I find it remarkable that any human being was
able to work out all the equations and models themselves.

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Bobby. Moderator Offline Australian Politics Posts: 105326 Melbourne Gender:	Re: Science thread Reply #10 - Jan 5^th, 2025 at 11:12pm We Were Wrong About Gold's Origin.
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Bobby. Moderator Offline Australian Politics Posts: 105326 Melbourne Gender:	Re: Science thread Reply #11 - Jan 5^th, 2025 at 11:18pm Why Dark Matter Likely Exists! And It "Looks" Like...
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Bobby. Moderator Offline Australian Politics Posts: 105326 Melbourne Gender:	Re: Science thread Reply #12 - Jan 6^th, 2025 at 4:57am A Better Way To Picture Atoms
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Bobby. Moderator Offline Australian Politics Posts: 105326 Melbourne Gender:	Re: Science thread Reply #13 - Jan 6^th, 2025 at 4:58am Visualizing the Nucleus
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Bobby. Moderator Offline Australian Politics Posts: 105326 Melbourne Gender:	Re: Science thread Reply #14 - Jan 6^th, 2025 at 4:59am Quantum Hype Goes Crazy. But Why?
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