The journey of a thousand miles

As an ancient proverb says, "the journey of a thousand miles begins with the first step." Even though the ultimate goal of the posclegom project seems to be out of reach, there are a lot of steps we could take now, little steps, that will move us in the general direction of posclegom's goals.

I believe that there really are only two major components to the posclegom project: a science component and an engineering component. The science component is for discovering new knowledge we don't already know. The engineering component for building new things using knowledge we already know.

The following is a list of suggested areas of investigation for the science component:

• Investigations into the nature of bonds.
• Differences between different types of covalent bonds, ionic bonds, resonance (1.5) bonds, hydrogen bonds, etc.
• Transition from the micro-scale to the macro-scale: how do the microscale arrangement of atoms and molecules create the macro-scale objects that we see around us, why do things take on the forms that we see, etc.

The following is a list of suggested areas of investigation for the engineering component: (to be continued...)