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> The bra-ket notation is literally just a way of notating linear algebra. The math doesn't change because of how you write it down.

You've obviously never taken a quantum mechanics class. It's taught as one or the other. I'm not arguing it's different, hence why I said the bra-ket "notation". It's simply the way chemists and physicists prefer to represent the schrodinger equation because it makes their math look better for their most commonly used applications.

I present to you, a perfect example.

This here is a book generally used by chemists when being taught quantum mechanics.

https://www.amazon.com/Physical-Chemistry-Molecular-Donald-McQuarrie/dp/0935702997

And now here is a book generally used by physicists when being taught the same thing.

https://www.amazon.com/Principles-Quantum-Mechanics-R-Shankar-ebook/dp/B000SEIXA2

Do you see how one book works almost exclusively in the linear algebra space while the other works almost exclusively using bra-ket notation? It's a choice, made by professors. Yes, you can learn both, it's not hard. This is why I know you've never taken a quantum mechanics class because this is made extraordinarily clear to everybody in the class. "These two things teach you the same stuff but in different ways. We choose to use this way."

> As for physical chemistry defining how everything works, how much particle physics do you do as a physical chemist?

Well considering I'm a spectroscopist, and a mechanist, quite a bit actually. And sure, I'm sure particle theory absolutely can explain pretty much everything.... in the longest most roundabout way possible. I wasn't aware, however, that the interactions of quarks (other than the electron....) came into play for the typical, everyday chemical reactions that occur constantly. In fact, are there not very few reactions that humans can achieve that actually have enough energy to split a proton or neutron into their constituent parts? I'm pretty sure that once the big bang cooled down everything pretty much settled into the subatomic particles we know and love today. So I mean, unless you plan on replicating the types of heat seen in the big bang.... that level of detail is... well... superfluous. Sure, it MAY be useful in SOME nuclear reactions, but even then, not always. If particle theory explained everything, why is it not used to explain everything? Go on.... explain. I'm waiting.

Also I find it funny that you assume that we didn't learn about subatomic particles smaller than the proton and the neutron. We simply know that they aren't really that useful for most normal situations. In theory? Sure. In reality? No. We're chemists, not theorists. We get shit done.

> Edit: it's also worth noting that bra-ket notation is typically introduced at the undergraduate level of quantum mechanics.

Congratulations! You've discovered the meaning of the word "introduced!"

Elizabeth Smart actually wrote a book talking about the whole ordeal, like how it started, how she was treated and how she felt, and then how she got found and the aftermath of it all. It's a really moving read if anyone is interested. Amazon Link

It's quite pricey but I found it fascinating. It's remarkable how well she came through it.

He's got a very interesting book about his experience, called Adrift: 76 Days Lost at Sea.

I highly recommend it if you like adventure/survival stories.

Agreed. What helps when I have social anxiety (usually around those in authority or who have say-so in hiring decisions), I say to myself "so what?" because your anxiety is essentially telling you "what if?" questions. "What if" they think I'm stupid, what if they think I'm not competent, what if I'm not good enough. Fuck that shit.

Your stutter shouldn't be held against you, but I think that piece on social anxiety single handed gave me the confidence to speak to people in authority without shaking in my boots. It will help.

Also this book by Barry McDonagh. This is taken directly from his material (at least my therapist says so). https://www.amazon.com/Dare-Anxiety-Stop-Panic-Attacks/dp/0956596258

I'd say you could give them books by Dianna Wynne Jones Vivian Van Verde, Ursula LeGuin, or Jane Yolen.

but there's all kinds of folktakes and fairytales they might like with legitimately strong women and girls.

Want a strong female character? Garth Nix's Abhorsen trilogy

If you can't read what's already been laid out for you, I'm not going to hold your hand.

http://www.amazon.com/Scholastic-Success-Reading-Comprehension-Grade/dp/0545200822/ref=sr_1_6

Thats a good way to goodbye depression.

Your wish was answered in 1932

This might help you out.

Her picture on amazon is ridiculous.

J.K. Rowling should use the same pose for hers.

Edit:

The first 5-star review of her first book (Avg rating of 2 stars) reads:

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Brilliant review.

http://www.amazon.com/Things-They-Carried-Tim-OBrien/dp/0618706410

Well it's a big big question. The framers believed all sorts of things and weren't nearly so monolithic in their perspective as politicians seem today.

If I could only have one book on what the framers themselves believed I'd go with this:

http://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/0700603115/ref=redir_mdp_mobile/178-6525660-7786257

Its a dry somewhat technical read but its rigorous.

Holy shit he has a book

Looked for it on Amazon and it has 93 1-star reviews. There are very few 2/3/4 star reviews and that makes it really obvious. Ugh :\

Crackers were poor white scottish settlers in the south during the late 1700's. Many of them were indentured servants and bond servants. Cracker culture is considered to be similar to todays ghetto culture, in that drinking was emphsized and education was looked down upon, and people labeled crackers lived in poverty in the Appalachia. The first people who used the slur crackers were wealthy slave owning planters who looked down upon poor whites. The bullwhip theory is not the only one, some have suggested that cracker came about because corn was the staple food of poor whites. So cracker does have a history of oppression and classism attached to it.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cracker_(pejorative)

http://www.amazon.com/They-Were-White-Slaves-Enslavement/dp/0929903056
Discusses indentured slavery and debt bondage among poor whites.