October 21, 2009

Coincidence?

Adroit Sixes are a sight to behold. It is in their ring structure where the alternating double and single bonds create an amazing strength and the flexibility for each Six in the ring to acquire something else adds to the amazement. As observed, a single One can act as a very neutral placeholder on this ring, or an Eight can half-connect instead and then bond on to something else.

Within this monster, there are five double ring structures, each of which is virtually identical, with the exception that one of them has an extra Six, extending the connection chain. It appears that this allows the fifth Double-Ring to wiggle and sway in a way that the others can not.

I find a striking similarity between the atomic bond structure and properties of this monster and the long branch-points that people have on each of the shorter, yet closer to the network, extremities. The curiosity over the fact that this single monster of a molecule has a radial structure that is similar to a much much larger massive structure of billions of atoms, strikes me in a smattering of most interesting ways. Could it be that all of this is interrelated?

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