From owner-chemistry@ccl.net Sun Feb 19 20:14:00 2006 From: "Eric Scerri scerri * chem.ucla.edu" To: CCL Subject: CCL: eugen schwarz on orbitals Message-Id: <-30929-060218003924-26051-Gm9TXRY9fCMIhXZ//7tUjg%x%server.ccl.net> X-Original-From: Eric Scerri Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary=Apple-Mail-3-872680420 Date: Fri, 17 Feb 2006 21:39:13 -0800 Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v746.2) Sent to CCL by: Eric Scerri [scerri:_:chem.ucla.edu] --Apple-Mail-3-872680420 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; delsp=yes; format=flowed I am wondering what list members think about the article on observation of orbitals in the latest issue of Angewandte Chemie (Int Ed')? If indeed orbitals can be observed in the various senses that Schwarz indicates, how should textbook accounts on the unobservability of orbitals be modified? This is not something that the author addresses. regards, Dr. Eric Scerri Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry, Charles Young Drive, Los Angeles, CA 90095. 310 206 7443 fax: 310 206 2061 UCLA faculty web page: http://www.chem.ucla.edu/dept/Faculty/scerri/ Editor of Foundations of Chemistry, http://www.springer.com/sgw/cda/frontpage/0,11855,4-40399-70-35545882- detailsPage%253Djournal%257CmostViewedArticles%257CmostViewedArticles, 00.html International Society for the Philosophy of Chemistry, http://ispc.sas.upenn.edu/ --Apple-Mail-3-872680420 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1


I am wondering what list members = think about the article on observation of orbitals in the latest issue = of Angewandte Chemie (Int Ed')?

If indeed orbitals can be = observed in the various senses that Schwarz indicates, how should = textbook accounts on the unobservability of orbitals be modified?=A0 = This is not something that the author addresses.=A0=A0

regards,



Dr. Eric = Scerri
Department of Chemistry & = Biochemistry,
Charles Young Drive,
Los = Angeles,
CA 90095.

310 206 7443
fax: = 310 206 2061

UCLA faculty web page:=A0=A0=A0=




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