Today, I noticed that I seem to write a lot about rotation. It seems to come to be ‘naturally’, or at least from something far back in my past[1].<\/p>\n
It feels like it might have originally come from discussions of Chirality<\/a>, somewhere back in high school. Like the concept of Gm1m2\/r^2<\/a> migrating to Cq1q2\/r^2<\/a>[2], or basing the Bohr model of the atom on the model of the solar system<\/a>.<\/p>\n A lot of what I write has to do with how I ‘rotate in’ possible solutions to try to fit them with the problem I’m working on. As far as I know, the brain doesn’t actually work like this. I could see a generalized model of computing developing two sections of nerves, one which displayed a problem, one which displayed possible solutions, each in their firing patterns. I wonder if this happens.<\/p>\n While we’re trying to fit possible solutions to this problem, let’s consider other possible metaphors from the ‘ball and stick’ molecular model[3].<\/p>\n – Hinge rotations, like a pendulum, or the dangling COOH on a long-chain carboxylic acid Note that all of these can change based on the conditions: The blog posts which inspired this one:<\/p>\n BOF VI: The Chemist in me:<\/a> [1] Perhaps this explains why I was so excited about Dinosaur Rotation<\/a>!<\/p>\n [2]I was lucky enough to see Douglas Hofstadter<\/a> speak about ‘Analogies in Physics<\/a>‘. His best work is probably ‘Godel, Escher, Bach<\/a>‘, which talks about natural and artificial intelligence, the incompleteness theorem, music, and art.<\/p>\n [3]I owe much or all of my intuition here to my time spent rotating[4] through the Ponder Lab<\/a> at WashU. They work on one of the few world class molecular modeling software programs, Tinker<\/a>. When I was there, Tinker worked by modeling molecules as balls & sticks, with various rotational and vibrational modes.<\/p>\n [4]Ha!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Today, I noticed that I seem to write a lot about rotation. It seems to come to be ‘naturally’, or at least from something far back in my past[1]. It feels like it might have originally come from discussions of Chirality, somewhere back in high school. Like the concept of Gm1m2\/r^2 migrating to Cq1q2\/r^2[2], or … Continue reading Rotation and Other Metaphors<\/span>
\n – Spring action, like atoms in an N2(g) molecule moving towards and away from each other.
\n – Triangle and higher order into and out of plane rotations\/vibrations\/translations<\/p>\n
\n – Temperature
\n – Water or non-water nearby
\n – Salts or other charged ions near or far away
\n – How hydrophilic or hydrophobic parts of the adjoining environment are
\n – Van der Waals forces<\/p>\n
\nMultidimensional Word and Sentence Rotation<\/a>
\nSolution Rotation<\/a><\/p>\n