Some Inexplicables

Nevertheless, these things said, there are examples here and there of cures, or at least remissions. Thus, there is Elaine Nussbaum s Recovery from Cancer A Personal Story of Sickness and Health, published in 1997. And there is the organization called Institute for Noetic Sciences in Sausalito, California, that keeps track of such cases ( noetic, pertaining to the mind). It would be extremely informative to determine if there is any sort of a common thread that links these recoveries. 

Gearin-Tosh followed these regimes for about a year, then wrote the book after about 7 years, and although not in perfect health was stiU aUve in 2002. The first half of the book is a personal chronicle, with the last half consisting of a critique. 

The comment can be added that those of medical orthodoxy agree to certain protocols of treatment to protect their backsides. In other words, even if the treatment fails (or almost always fails), it will still be recognized (in court) by the attending physician s medical peers as the therapy of choice. Not necessarily so with alternatives, although a consent form is signed. 

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Amazingly, all central C=C bonds were 98% trans, a remarkable stereoselectivity for any reaction. This fact rules out the intervention of an Syl route—unless some inexplicable stereocontrol is in operation. Since the transition state must embody rotational restrictions, the mechanism would not be invalidated. In this bimolecular approach the incoming and departing groups would be somehow associated as to discourage rotation of the carbon skeleton. Structure III, for example, would contain a comfortable six-membered transition state that should fulfill this requirement thoroughly, although it is unprecedented. 

The results for the polymethyl compounds in Table 259, show departure from additivity for the 2,6 and 3,4-compounds (where steric acceleration is obviously responsible) and for the 3,5 compound, the result of which is inexplicable. Some additional relative rates were obtained by Benkeser et al.133 as follows 3-Me, 2.51 3-i-Pr, 3.96 3-f-Bu, 5.50 4-Me, 10.6 4-Et, 11.5 4-/-Pr, 12.0 4-f-Bu, 14.0. It is not clear which of the conditions used by Benkeser et al.136 were employed for this study, especially since the relative rates quoted for 3-Me and 4-Me do not agree with either of the sets of data in Table 259. 

The complex situation The analysis involves some instruments (e.g., dissolution apparatus, HPLC, balance), dozens of samples, and several analysts, and could take days to perform. If nobody notices anything particular about the individual snippets of work or any of the results, no observations of probable operator error are documented. When the supervisor then inserts number after unspectacular number into the formula, all results turn out to be within specification limits, with the exception of one or two that are barely outside. But, no documentation, no operator error, just inexplicable OOS, full investigation ... 

Before nitrates and particularly ammonium nitrate were readily available commercially, explosives were developed based on chlorates and perchlorates. These also are still used in some countries. In general perchlorates are considered less dangerous than chlorates and therefore preferred. They are easily sensitised, so that in addition to explosives of this type based on nitroglycerine, others have been based on various organic liquids, particularly nitrobodies. History shows that chlorates and perchlorates must be regarded as temperamental substances, liable in bulk to lead to inexplicable accidents. Particularly when mixtures of chlorates and oxidising materials are allowed to become wet and then dry out, conditions can arise in which there is an appreciable sensitiveness to friction and impact. Explosives of this type have an unfortunate record of accidents. They are used, therefore, to a limited extent only, now that safer compositions are available. 

The polymerization of olefins by metal halides is discussed with special emphasis on the role of the co-catalyst in these reactions. A new extension of the existing theory is proposed to account for some hitherto inexplicable observations, especially those relating to the effect of hydrogen halides on various polymerization systems. 

What followed was inexplicable. After 1 said 1 wanted to play some basketball, the desk manager summoned a young man to take me to the gym. Once there, he tossed a basketball to me and I took a jump shot or two. Then 1 thought he should be doing more than just chasing and returning the ball. 1 urged him to take some shots himself, but his basketball skills proved to be limited. 

It also seems inexplicable that a few of the Special Forces soldiers who rushed into the theater reportedly collapsed in a matter of seconds, while some members of the audience were able to stagger out under their own power. How... 

This idea is an old one, as it was put forward by the British emergentists such as Mill (1872), Alexander (1920), Broad (1925), and to some extent by Morgan (1923), and has also been discussed in the more recent literature (see, for example, Wimsatt, 1972, and McLaughlin, 1992). In other words, the emergent property of the whole is inexplicable, i.e., non-deducible from the properties of the parts. 

The activated halogenothiophene is more reactive than a similarly activated halogeno-benzene. A quantitative study of the rate of piperidino-debromination of six isomeric bromonitrothiophenes reveals that these substrates react considerably faster than the corresponding bromonitrobenzenes. As in electrophilic substitution, the 2,3-, 2,4- and 2,5-relationships have been equated to ortho, meta and para substitution in benzene derivatives. Although there is some validity in this, a few inexplicable results have been encountered in the above study thus 2-bromo-4-nitrothiophene reacts much faster than either 2-bromo-3-nitro- or 2-bromo-5-nitro-thiophene (64AHC(3)285>. 

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