RE: Our Physical World Might Just Have Changed
As a PhD in Organic chemistry I am proud but at the same time need to correct you. We have millions of molecules lying on shelves, doing reactions is not the limiting factor, or predicting the chemistry. It’s testing molecules or making good predictions if they will work for a disease or other applications. Sticking to diseases. Even when with models we think we can predict a good molecule, often it fails in the phases it’s tested in vitro or in vivo ( on cells, or animals). But it doesn’t make me less excited. Quantum computing will open up better models and better predictions of molecules we need to make. If only it was full prove and we wouldn't have to test in mice, rats pigs, chimpanzees. Not only because of the animal suffering, but also because we can now cure many diseases in mice, but not in humans, meaning: what might work on mice doesn’t work in humans and we might loose potential good medicine, because it doesn’t work in mice, but could work in Humans. The building of molecules and predicting reactions is a nice to have. But the rate limiting step is in prediction and testing.
Thank you for the clarification @hefziba. I do appreciate the comment.
Thanks, I love your content, and it’s good to see people realizing chemistry is a good thing :-)