Introducing Cosmic Chemistry

Cosmic Chemistry: Cosmogony

Big Bang, quarks, dark matter, general relativity, red-shift, non-Euclidean geometry, worm holes—all words that are mysterious in their details, but often translated into the vernacular with relative ease by journalists and science writers. These words form part of the core of the science of cosmology, a science in which the questions usually are easy to state, but equally difficult to answer. ...

Cosmic Chemistry: An Elemental Question

It is also important to notice how the modern periodic table is arranged. Although we have retained the format of rows and columns, which reflects a natural order, the rows of today's tables show elements in the order of Mendeleev's columns. In other words the elements of what we now call a "period" were listed vertically by Mendeleev. Chemical "groups" are now shown vertically in contrast to t...

Personal reactive clouds: Introducing the concept of near-head chemistry

The ‘‘personal cloud’’ effect and its impact on human exposure to airborne pollutants are well documented. A great deal is also known regarding indoor air chemistry, particularly as related to ozone reactions with mono-terpenes. In this paper we hypothesize the presence of personal reactive clouds that result from ozone reactions with terpenes and terpenoids emitted from personal care products....

Laboratory studies of the cosmic origins of organic chemistry

Time Delays in Cosmic Ray Propagation

Cosmic Rays (CR) travel at speeds essentially indistinguishable from the speed of light. However whilst travelling through magnetic fields, both regular and turbulent, they are delayed behind the light since they are usually charged particles and their paths are not linear. Those delays can be so long that they are an impediment to correctly identifying sources which may be variable in time. Fu...