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On the Anticipation of Lunar Travel in the Early 20th Century: A Pedagogical Exercise
Tina A. Harriott, Cherif F. Matta
This article examines, from historical and pedagogical perspectives, Alphonse Berget's anticipation of Earth-Moon travel in Le Ciel (Larousse, 1923), decades before the beginning o…
The Great Chicken-and-Egg of Chemistry: Bonding vs. Stability Revisited
Cherif F. Matta
The chemical bond is a central organizing concept in chemistry, yet it is absent from the molecular Hamiltonian and no "bond operator" exists. Bonding is therefore not a primitive…
Benchmarking Astrochemistry Paradigms: Relative Absence of C6H5CN+ in the Diffuse ISM
Daniel Majaess, Cercis Morera-Boado, Tina A. Harriott +4
The detectability of C6H5CN+ (benzonitrile cation) in the diffuse ISM is re-evaluated. A holistic evidentiary framework suggests C6H5CN+ is relatively absent in the diffuse ISM owi…
The Critical 9365 Å Diffuse Interstellar Band and C Association
Daniel Majaess, Tina A. Harriott, Halis Seuret +3
The detection of interstellar C has been debated for 30 years. The contested attribution of a weaker DIB at 9365 Å was re-evaluated here on the basis of a Pearson correl…
Decoding the Hot-Mitochondrion Paradox
Peyman Fahimi, Michael Lynch, Cherif F. Matta
In a 2018 paper and a subsequent article published in 2023, researchers reported that mitochondria maintain temperatures 10oC-15oC higher than the surrounding cytoplasm-a finding t…
Rotational Dynamics of ATP Synthase: Mechanical Constraints and Energy Dissipative Channels
Islam K. Matar, Peyman Fahimi, Cherif F. Matta
The proton motive force (PMF) across the inner mitochondrial membrane delivers approximately 0.2 eV of energy per proton, powering the FoF1-ATP synthase molecular motor. Here, we p…
Potential Vibrational Modes Tied to Diffuse Interstellar Bands
Daniel Majaess, Halis Seuret, Tina A. Harriott +4
Potential vibrational modes associated with diffuse interstellar bands (DIBs) could be discerned by examining energy differences between correlated DIBs. Consequently, $\approx 10^…
Strengthening the Link Between Fullerenes and a Subset of Diffuse Interstellar Bands
Daniel Majaess, Tina A. Harriott, Halis Seuret +3
A debate persists regarding the correlation between the DIBs 9577 and 9632 Å, and whether they share a common molecular carrier (i.e., C). A robust high correlation dete…
The sounds of science a symphony for many instruments and voices part II
Gerard t Hooft, William D Phillips, Anton Zeilinger +22
Despite its amazing quantitative successes and contributions to revolutionary technologies, physics currently faces many unsolved mysteries ranging from the meaning of quantum mech…
A Travelling Salesman Paths within nxn (n = 3, 4, 5) Magic Squares
Peyman Fahimi, Walter Trump, Cherif F. Matta +1
Intriguing symmetries are uncovered regarding all magic squares of orders 3, 4, and 5, with 1, 880, and 275,305,224 distinct configurations, respectively. In analogy with the trave…
ATP Synthase: A Moonlighting Enzyme with Unprecedented Functions
Jean-Nicolas Vigneau, Peyman Fahimi, Maximilian Ebert +5
ATP synthase's intrinsic molecular electrostatic potential (MESP) adds constructively to, and hence reinforces, the chemiosmotic voltage. This ATP synthase voltage represents a new…
Quantum Crystallography N-Representability
Cherif F. Matta, Lulu Huang, Lou Massa
Linus Pauling contributions span structural biology, chemistry in its broadest definition, quantum mechanical theory, valence bond theory, and even nuclear physics. A principal too…
Quantum Crystallography: Projectors and kernel subspaces preserving N-representability
Cherif F. Matta, Lou Massa
Consider a projector matrix P, representing the first order reduced density matrix in a basis of orthonormal atom-centric basis functions. A mathematical question arises, and that…
The Hot Mitochondrion Paradox: Reconciling Theory and Experiment
Peyman Fahimi, Cherif F. Matta
Experiments by Chretien and co-workers suggest that mitochondria are 10oC hotter than their surroundings. Steady-state theoretical estimates place this difference at a maximum of 1…
Manipulation of Diatomic Molecules with 'Oriented External Electric Fields': Linear Correlations in Atomic Properties Lead to Non-Linear Molecular Responses
Shahin Sowlati-Hashjin, Mikko Karttunen, Cherif F. Matta
'Oriented external electric fields (OEEFs)' have been shown to have great potential in being able to provide unprecedented control of chemical reactions, catalysis and selectivity…
Anionic hydrogen clusters as a source of diffuse interstellar bands (DIBs)
Lulu Huang, Cherif F. Matta, Daniel Majaess +3
The sources behind numerous key diffuse interstellar bands (DIBs) remain elusive, and thus evidence is presented here that a family of seven anionic hydrogen atomic clusters (H(-)2…