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Arrival got it right, although they still did the floaty rock thing.

Floaty rock spaceship design. The aliens are just humans with a twist.

Chemist.

Spectroscopy equipment is notoriously expensive and there's probably a reason beyond profit. At best you would be able to say "this is impure" and when someone asks "with what?" just shrugging and smiling would be the best answer. And street narcotics will without be impure. Chemists...

Since math is a neverending problem, the question is whether a similar theorem exists / can be proven for a non-cyclic quadrilateral.

No, but certainly a need for an intelligent "creator" in this instance. :wink:

I'm not aware of the scope of Soai's work, i.e. how many instances of the Soai reaction have been discovered, but the molecules studied seem highly specific, especially the presented "tert-butyl alkyne" derivative.

Oh would you look at that. This is a solved problem. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyclic_quadrilateral#Parameshvara's_circumradius_formula

Harvard, one of the most prestigious universities in the world entire world, discovers the ancient concept of mysticism. This seems antithetical to an intellectual institution. What's next, the Peace Corp looking into thermonuclear weapons?

Well, for starters, ##|n - 0| = n##, whereas ##|n - \infty|## is not a conceptually valid operation.

I'm trying but it's not an easy problem.

It is not surprising to me! Enantioselectivity is one of the big bulls of synthetic chemistry.

Whoever designed LinkedIn's job agent made me realize that we'll always have jobs for people with mental deficits.

I have a little experience in molecular dynamics, which deals with how molecules (or atoms) behave as system, and may be formulated with classical physics. An introductory simulation deals with how phospholipids suspended in water spontaneously assemble into a sheet-like lipid bilayer...

Everything is reactive if you try hard enough.