re are atoms real was re after years blah blah blah kempmp phoenix oulu fi petri pihko writes mathew mathew mantis co uk wrote what is the difference between a chemist and someone who is taught chemistry at say cambridge university put like this i can t answer i was originally pointing out that your attitude seemed to be i don t know if it really was that chemists tend to ignore all kinds of effects when they re not important yes all scientists do otherwise science would never get anywhere your original posting stated that when doing chemistry it is common to ignore atomic interactions hang about not atomic interactions in general just specific ones which are deemed unimportant like gravitational interactions between ions which are so small they re drowned out by electrostatic effects and so on has there been some revolution in teaching methods in the last four years perhaps this revolution has yet to reach cambridge my now i ll get flamed for sure oh probably they still make people memorize equations and ir spectra maybe in a few decades they ll discover the revolutionary data book technique bitter and twisted mathew
