ABSTRACT

Frankel, Felice Whitesides, George M. Molecules-like ants, lemmings, herring, people-are happiest when surrounded by their own kind.

Maxwell, James Clerk . . . in the heavens we discover by their light, and by their light alone, stars so distant from each other that no material thing can ever have passed from one to another; and yet this light, which is to us the sole evidence of the existence of these distant worlds, tells us also that each of them is built up of molecules of the same kinds as those which we find on earth. A molecule of hydrogen, for example, whether in Sirius or in Arcturus, executes its vibrations in precisely the same time.