Lakefingers said:

I'm sure chemistry will be remarkably silly in a thousand years. Already
most neuroscience and philosophy of mind is silly according to quantum
physicists, who find that psychologists, biologists, philosophers, etc,
are still working from a Newtonian view.

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Oh man, totally.  I've always thought that studying bacteriophages, epistemology, genetics and behavior was futile without decomposing them into a superposition of spin states by looking up their Clebsch-Gordan Coefficients.

Hey, that isn't even my fault! Those Newtonian biologists haven't taken the time to write up Clebsch-Gordan coefficients for their phylogenetic trees!  How closed minded of them.  All this time they were thinking that their studies were in the classical regime, being that they're on the order of at least thousands of angstroms to hundreds of meters.  I guess the characteristic wavelength of protons is bigger than we physicists have been saying all of these years, since biology is, evidently, manifestly quantum mechanical.


You know, for the longest time, I thought that chemistry was a science with a long history of well-studied reactions that had been put on a sound theoretical basis with the advent of quantum mechanics.  But you've shown me otherwise.  All of that stuff about occupation and spin and energy levels and fine structure and characteristics imparted by atomic nuclei are just assumptions!  No quantum mechanics here, no sir!

"Scientific Wasteland".  That's what this forum is.  I'm going to head back to the garden.  I wish I could say it's been fun.