ABSTRACT
Throughout chemistry, atoms are bound together in ways that can generally be seen as electromagnetic (EM) in character. Atoms give or take electrons, become ions, and come together to make molecules and larger nanostructures. For the structures to then stay together, there must be continuing EM signals exchanged within them. Signals travel at some finite speed, but in quantum mechanics (QM), distant correlations occur. Signals are pulselike, but in special relativity theory, signals are more like infinite plane waves of light. In QM, there exist distant correlations, instantaneously enforced, without clear evidence of communication via traveling signals. Information Theory clarifies an important property that signals have to possess in order to convey any information whatsoever: they have to be somewhat pulse-like. For modeling a signal pulse, the most appropriate of the example functions appears to be the continuous and two-sided Gaussian. About the Gaussian: besides maximizing entropy, it also minimizes ‘uncertainty.’.
