• AdelleChattre
    +4

    Yes, you do seem to be making things up. The linked paper sketches tentative ideas for a possible alternative way of understanding chemistry from a different perspective, hardly what you've claimed above.

    • leweb
      +2

      Nope. There's a follow-up paper also. She pretty much wants to do away with the idea of ideal behavior and models for deviations from ideal behavior on the grounds that the "ideal behavior" is sexist (the argument is longer, going throughout comparison of ideal models with Platonic ideals, etc.). There is no scientific reason to do any of this, unless she can provide a model that is objectively better based on physical reasoning.

      I'm not opposed to feminism in general, but everything has its place. The ideal gas model is useful because it's simple, not because it's some abstract embodiment of male superiority. This is seeing things where there's nothing.