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Last week in the wonderful armpit of the world known as TX.....
They pass a ban on gay marriages and "defined" marriage as only between a man and a woman.

God must really like the backwater morality of TX.... ID is just around the bend... Maybe public stonings are next.

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I puzzled whether to post here or in the chemistry forum, but the physics forum is a bit more traveled and quantum chemistry stradles the line a bit...
I personally have always been uncomfortable with elctron quantum leaps from one orbital to another, It just seems that things should not ping from one place into another.

Here are my base assumptions and their ramifications...perhaps this is where my error lies and this can be sorted out, but it seems that if I see things as I have, that there may be some ways to explain and alter this paradox.

1. Electron quantum leaps are from one orbital to another. (the next orpital corresponding to either increased or decreased energy).
2. Current electron cloud models are based on probability and on static molecular geometry.

The idea that occured to me, is that as energy is either put inot or removed, these electron cloud shapes could be warped, ie overlap. As the energy neccesary for an electron to assume the general probability in the new orbital, it is back into the "base" state of the orbital likely to be found in the most likely areas acording to current models (Hamiltonian mechanics).

Any major flaws or problems that arise from this... Quantum mechanics has never really been my friend, so I may have some massive oversights...So I thought I would throw out the idea and see what sticks..
Thanks.
Fish

I was watching an old show on PBS today that was speaking about the extinction of the dino's at the end of the cretaceous.. The model that was pushed up until the end was meteor impact and the evidence at the K-T boundry. There does seem to be evidence of a meteor impact. The question was just brought up near the end of the show, why so many other types of animals survived (frogs were one example, which are EXCEDINGLY prone to ecological problems) and others did not.

IMO it seems that the meteor impact was not as devistating as thought, but just the final nail into a group that wason its last legs anyways (As a whole.. there were very advanced dinos's at the end. But one could look at primates. While there has been much greater diversity in the past, there is little now, but here are humans).

There are a few things that seemed to be going on....

1) Climate change.
2) Dominant plant life shifting from gymnosperms to angiosperms.
3) Massive migratory paterns into new areas (transmission of indigenous disseases)

Any ideas...comments?
I'm just trying to look a little deeper into an event that seems to be blamed on one cause, but it doesn't really describe the outcome that we have...

In the US many arguments arise concerning the constitutionaliy of something or another. One point that usually is brought up is the orginal intent of the authors and ratifiers. In specific instances this makes some sense, in other absolutly none. This document was written by people with individual flaws and perspectives. They did not see it neccessary to ban slavery. So why do does it matter what Madison or Jefferson thought about something? They had no concept of what we would be facing today and their POV on certain issues is definately antiquated.

Just a though...