Random Analogies
"The electron affinity is like ionization energy. It is the energy required to add an electron to a neutral atom in the gas phase.
The general trends in EA are hard to
discern
We expect EA to decrease in magnitude
(less negative) down a group as we move further from the nucleus. Only observed for Groups 1 and 8, or elements after Ne.
We expect EA to increase (more negative) across a row as the nuclear charge increases and size decreases. There are plenty of exceptions to this"
"Thus, particles colliders do not reveal fundamental reality, but an emergent reality. In other words, trying to discover fundamental reality using particle accelerator is like looking at the wrong end of microscope to reveal the microcosm or at the wrong end of a telescope to observe the macrocosm. That is not to say that such instruments as the LHC are useless. On the contrary, such instruments are essential to our understanding of reality. It's only that what they show us is not fundamental reality, but processes that came into existence at states that followed the initial isotropic state of the Universe. "
"In a lot of ways, The Thorn Birds is like Gone With the Wind, except that when the bygone era of The Thorn Birds passes, it's not with this over-reaching sense of melodrama, but with an acceptance because that's what all life does eventually. Actually, it's not really like GWTW at all, except that there is family drama and a conflicted, all-encompassing love story. But I'm pretty sure Meggie would avoid Scarlett like the plague."
