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Boris -- thanks for this review! Sorry about the fonts. The Kindle version is up now. I just friended you here -- we can then direct message.
Many thanks, Steven. I have already ordered its Kindle version ;-))
I just noticed that you "friended" me on GoodReads -- now I need to figure out how to contact you directly... -- which so far I can't figure out.
PS: Just added a book review to Amazon....
Steven wrote: "Boris -- thanks for this review! Sorry about the fonts. The Kindle version is up now. I just friended you here -- we can then direct message."
Hi Steven, I don't know how to communicate with you using "friended".
HOWEVER, I just discovered, while rereading your latest book,
two MAJOR (cardinal, fundamental) typos/errors.
How best to communicate them (they are EASILY corrected) -- without making them public?
If needed - I can send you my email is xxxxxx@earthlink.net, or
my phone 650-704-xxxx
Best regards, Boris
Steven, no response from you about two major typos yet so -- here it is. I hope this is a private rather than public communication.
On page 211 of book (p-211 on my Kindle but this is function of font size selected) the all-important section "The realm of the densely packed" about life bounded by nearly infinitely large "empty" spaces on both sides - you write in error about - neutrons.
Typo One: "Since there is only one neutron in a hydrogen atom, ..."
That is an error -- hydrogen is the ONLY atom that actually doesn't have neutrons. It has only a proton – that is also fundamental in purely physics-driven (rather than chemical) respiration (as well as for biosynthesis) -- the proton motive force required among other for ATP generation facilitated by a miraculous molecular machine known as ATP synthase. This enzyme, or high-speed rotating molecular motor, plays a critical role in the production of adenosine triphosphate (ATP), which is essentially the energy currency of the cell of essentially ALL life on Earth.
Since proton and neutron are of similar size, replacing neutron with a proton would easily correct the error and your point would stay the same.
Typo Two: Further in the same paragraph, you write how neutrons in different atoms "do not often interact.......they are too far apart". Neutrons are charge neutral - they hardly interact even when much closer.
The argument is infinitely stronger if, again, you replace neutron with proton -- who have a positive charge and very strongly repulse each other -- BUT not in different atoms - again because of huge distances....
I hope you will eventually receive these corrections to otherwise outstanding points you are making.
Best regards, Boris
Boris -- I fixed the neutron/proton mistake and I also sent you a couple of messages. Can you see them?
Thanks Steven, let me try to see if I can find them somewhere... ;-))
Steven, I can see them only on my PC — not on my phone ;-))
Best, Boris
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Many thanks, Steven. I have already ordered its Kindle version ;-))I just noticed that you "friended" me on GoodReads -- now I need to figure out how to contact you directly... -- which so far I can't figure out.
PS: Just added a book review to Amazon....
Steven wrote: "Boris -- thanks for this review! Sorry about the fonts. The Kindle version is up now. I just friended you here -- we can then direct message."Hi Steven, I don't know how to communicate with you using "friended".
HOWEVER, I just discovered, while rereading your latest book,
two MAJOR (cardinal, fundamental) typos/errors.
How best to communicate them (they are EASILY corrected) -- without making them public?
If needed - I can send you my email is xxxxxx@earthlink.net, or
my phone 650-704-xxxx
Best regards, Boris
Steven, no response from you about two major typos yet so -- here it is. I hope this is a private rather than public communication.On page 211 of book (p-211 on my Kindle but this is function of font size selected) the all-important section "The realm of the densely packed" about life bounded by nearly infinitely large "empty" spaces on both sides - you write in error about - neutrons.
Typo One: "Since there is only one neutron in a hydrogen atom, ..."
That is an error -- hydrogen is the ONLY atom that actually doesn't have neutrons. It has only a proton – that is also fundamental in purely physics-driven (rather than chemical) respiration (as well as for biosynthesis) -- the proton motive force required among other for ATP generation facilitated by a miraculous molecular machine known as ATP synthase. This enzyme, or high-speed rotating molecular motor, plays a critical role in the production of adenosine triphosphate (ATP), which is essentially the energy currency of the cell of essentially ALL life on Earth.
Since proton and neutron are of similar size, replacing neutron with a proton would easily correct the error and your point would stay the same.
Typo Two: Further in the same paragraph, you write how neutrons in different atoms "do not often interact.......they are too far apart". Neutrons are charge neutral - they hardly interact even when much closer.
The argument is infinitely stronger if, again, you replace neutron with proton -- who have a positive charge and very strongly repulse each other -- BUT not in different atoms - again because of huge distances....
I hope you will eventually receive these corrections to otherwise outstanding points you are making.
Best regards, Boris
Boris -- I fixed the neutron/proton mistake and I also sent you a couple of messages. Can you see them?
Thanks Steven, let me try to see if I can find them somewhere... ;-))
Steven, I can see them only on my PC — not on my phone ;-))Best, Boris
