We Are a Mush of Molecules

Atoms and the collection of atoms (molecules) are the building blocks of the us - we are a mush of molecules!

Hi and welcome to The Journey Never Ends.

Today I'm going to be exposing myself as a very nerdy person as I recite my poem called Atoms.

For those of you that don't know,

I have a chemistry degree from Trinity University and in 2010 I was published in a

chemistry journal.

I don't do chemistry as my day job, but at my core, I'm a woman of science.

All right, so here's my poem called Atoms.

Atoms are charge dichotomies, avoid and surplus.

Atoms are more than philosophies, more than just theory.

Nature's must.

Full of hypocrisies.

Plus, minus, neutral impracticality.

We're expanding but collapsing.

Made by molecules.

I call mush.

So this is an introduction to my idea that we are all molecules.

our organic body, the air we breathe, the earth we stand on.

We are all atoms.

We are all molecules.

So we are a mush of molecules.

I want to share this philosophy that I made up with you guys as an introduction to

because I will be exploring in depth and teaching you guys a little bit about the

three thermodynamic laws.

I utilize the three thermodynamic laws as almost a conceptual framework to explain

some self-help concepts.

So I'm just going to review the three thermodynamic laws today and we'll have

future episodes that dig a little bit deeper into each of them.

I hope you're ready for a chemistry lesson,

a physics lesson,

and to maybe even learn something new.

I also want to highlight that in science there are hypotheses, something that you want to test.

It's normally an if-then statement.

It doesn't have much certainty because it has not been proven.

There are also theories, like the valence bond theory, molecular orbital theory, among others.

These are things that tend to work.

They might not be perfect, but they're generally accepted in the scientific community.

These you can count on for the most part.

But then there are the laws of physics.

For something to be considered a law, that means that it has never been proven wrong.

So again, just the concept that we are mush of molecules and these laws really do affect us.

Okay, let's get into it.

The first thermodynamic law is the conservation of

of energy.

It goes like this.

Energy cannot be created or destroyed.

It can only be transformed.

Thermodynamic law number two is the concept that we are pushing towards disorder,

that chaos is favorable and

that when entropy and chaos is positive, something is more likely to occur.

Something is more thermodynamically favorable.

And lastly,

thermodynamic law number three,

everything has an energy unless it is in absolute zero,

which is scientifically denoted as zero Kelvin.

You might be used to temperature being listed in degrees Fahrenheit or degrees Celsius.

But when it comes to thermodynamics, it's actually on a scale called Kelvin.

If I remember off the top of my head, I believe that 273 Kelvin is about room temperature.

You can fact check me on that.

I'd love to know if I remember that correctly.

That's really all I wanted to talk about today.

I could go on and on about these thermodynamic laws,

which I'll do in another episode,

but just be ready to experience the nerdiness of me that takes thermodynamic laws

and applies them to everyday situations and uses a conceptual idea of these laws to

explain ourselves as a mush of molecules.

I hope you enjoyed this journey with me.

And don't forget, this journey never ends.

Thank you so much for being here today.

I hope you have a great day.

Much love.