Re: Gravity at the Molecular Level

On Feb 24, 5:14=A0pm, Richard Saam <rds...@xxxxxxx> wrote:

Your multi posted scenario
will probably be executed by someone.

In a parallel effort
would you consider an alternative
with mostly chemistry
and =A0a little observational physics
to =A0test the same
left vs right foot Eotvos hypothesis.

Ammonia is well known to vibrate/resonate between its two forms
with the three hydrogen at 105 degree from the center nitrogen
overcoming a rather small potential barrier at room temperature
at a very significant frequency ~1E10 /sec

Now, is there a tri amine which differs in chirality
between these two structures?
If so replace one or more of the 3 hydrogens
to obtain this chirality.

2.2'-Dipyridyl
Number 11.751.14 in Janssen Chimica
$50/100gram
may be a starting material of choice.
There are thousands of other triamines.

1. purify as well as possible
2. place in a (~50 to >100000 g's) centrifuge
in a completely racemic liquid or gaseous phase.
3. solidify the amine in the high g condition (by cooling).
This would freeze the racemic/chiral character of the amine.
4. Analysis the amine solid for racemic/chiral character as a function
of g condition. (I would assume some type of optical rotation method)
5. Relate results to the Eotvos criteria.

A kind of reverse Eotvos.
What do you think?

Interesting idea.
1) Omit the freezing, which would introduce artifacts.
2) Introduce a polarimeter into the optical system of an
analytical ultracentrifuge to perform measurements in real time.
3) Artifacts from stress on the quartz windows could be a problem,
requiring careful controls.
4) Figure out some way of publishing the negative results in the
absence of any solid theoretical motivation for performing the
experiment.

Jerry

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