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A Review of Four Centuries of History of the Properties of Water, from Newton's Mechanics and Infinitesimal Calculus to the Hexagonal Close Packed Periodic Lattice and its Extension to Condensed and Dilute Matters in our Universe and The Universe.

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Abstract

This talk traces the history of science-based physics-understanding and mathematics-engineering of Earth most abundant, Water Matter and Materials, during the past four centuries, beginning with the continuum or “analog” Newton’s Mechanics and his Infinitesimal Calculus, to our newly discovered “digital” periodic Lattice Model of the three material phases of Water, Solid (ice), Liquid (fluid) and Gas (vapor), which we have characterized by the eigenvalues-normal modes of its 36x36 dynamical matrix.  After a review of the new features of our model which were obtained from top-down explanation of several daily observed water properties, we present our water model’s possible extensions to model the other condensed matters and materials, including nuclear, particle and cosmology physics, and our mortal Universe and Einstein’s immortal Universe.  We show illustrations from Solid Geometry paper models and Differential Algebraic numerical computations, their computer plotted graphs on 2D flat paper in order for the human eyes to see, its 3-D geometry, and Python blendered particle tracks as well as pathways at thermodynamic equilibrium and arbitrary deviation from equilibrium driven by an applied force, in all three directions, of the ”Make Sense” and “Meet Sensibility” human landscape.

Presenters

  • Chihtang Sah

    Department of Physics, Xiamen University, China

Authors

  • Chihtang Sah

    Department of Physics, Xiamen University, China

  • Bin B Jie

    CTSA.US, LLC, Florida

  • Cindy Tianhui Jie

    Class 2023, Department of Physics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology