We present an ab initio direct dynamics trajectory study of the hydrogen abstraction reaction: H2CO+ + CD4 --> H2COD+ + CD3, with methane excited in two different distortion modes (nu4 and nu2). The trajectory simulations were able to reproduce experimental results and for the first time show how vibrational enhancement originates in reaction of small polyatomic species. Roughly equal contribut...

Imagine putting together a jigsaw puzzle that works like the board game in the movie "Jumanji": When you finish, whatever the puzzle portrays becomes real. The children playing "Jumanji" learn to prepare for the reality that emerges from the next throw of the dice. But how would this work for the puzzle of scientific research? How do you prepare for unlocking the secrets of the atom, or assembl...

T commonly cited case for intelligent design (ID) goes as follows: ‘some biological systems are so complex that they can only function when all of their components are present, so that the system could not have evolved from a simpler assemblage that did not contain the full machinery.’1 This definition is what biochemist Michael Behe called irreducible complexity in his popular book Darwin’s Bl...

Key words: strong thesis of tacit knowledge, weak theses of tacit knowledge, Wittgensteinian tradition, Polanyian tradition, Chinese philosophy In this paper, I attempt to create a dialogue between the Wittgensteinian tradition and the Polanyian tradition concerning the understanding of the concept of tacit knowledge/knowing from the perspective of the problem of articulation. Norwegian philoso...

Gestalt psychology of perception was one the main inspirations behind philosophical work Hungarian polymath Michael Polanyi. Seeing scientists and philosophers backing away from its implications, he proposed instead to take those implications seriously. I detail four ways in which did so, result his theory “tacit knowing”. This can be thought as a epistemology, because it takes figure/ground re...