In my last post I was tackling the problem of the difference of the knot in a molecular bond and the knot in a supramolecular bond. I suggested a structure that I readily admitted to being speculative:
In this structure the molecular bond and supramolecular bond are interchangeable. In my last post I promised to test the idea to see whether it’s a dead end or a breakthrough.
Already after some hours, I’m quite sure the idea was a dead end. The problem with the idea is that the loops are so closely connected that they cannot be separated into strings that don’t touch. So the above idea has to be scrapped.
However, this realization is also a hint that the molecular knot and supramolecular knot aren’t just slightly different: they must be wildly different mathematically. The molecular knot must stem from a point where two separate orbitals are stretched so that they can occupy the same space at the center of the knot. However, in the case of the supramolecular knot, the loops exist at the ‘wrong side’ of the center around with the elementary particles of energy rotate.
This is easiest to visualize with two hydrogen molecules forming a supramolecular knot:
The transparent green loops are the cores around which the blue and yellow loops twist. In a supramolecular knot, the cores are outside the center of the bond.
And here is the what the supramolecular knot looks like without the green cores:
Without the centers, the supramolecular knot appears almost identical to the knot of the molecular bond. However, the only thing that keeps the supramolecular knot tight is the common motion (temperature) of the two molecules. That is, when the temperature is not absolute zero, the molecules exist in a supramolecular shell, where the molecules rotate around the center of the shell at a speed defined by the temperature (the higher the temperature, the higher the speed).
So, can one define the equation for the supramolecular knot? Not as easily as one would for the molecular knot. One reason for this is that the supramolecular knot isn’t an actual bond. It’s something very similar, but not quite that. The major consequence of this is that while the supramolecular knot cannot be stretched tighter than what you see above, there’s no reason why it couldn’t be compressed. Like this:
So, do molecules then in the end move freely and randomly like the kinetic theory of gases suggests? Well, mostly not. If there is no external force causing the molecule to veer from its path, the interlocking of the molecular orbitals causes the molecules to rotate in a quasi-spherical orbital, where the shape of the supramolecular shell is as described in my Theory of Everything -manuscript:
So, even if there isn’t really a supramolecular bond as such, the knotting of the molecules together makes the molecules interact together as if bonded.
I’m tempted to say, “case closed”. However, this idea is just a few hours old, so to make the idea is sound, I need to put it to the test. I don’t even know what this test is yet, but I know that I need to try to shoot it down from as many angles as possible. If it prevails over the onslaught, I might become excited.
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