Seems like all beta sites just lost the "Beta" status and have increased privilege requirements.
I assume this is a bug, what happened here? Did a unicorn ate the wires again?
Even though we at Code Review would love to be graduating, I bet a site like Puzzling are going to have a hard time, as...
@Martin funny think is, when I started studying the effect they saw experimentally, I was sure it was the wine rack acting (having published justafew papers on the topic recently)
@Martin well, I'm so excited by this nice phenomenon I have to refrain myself from telling the story to strangers on the street :)
@LordStryker experimentally, they don't even see the proton itself… though theoretically with high enough resolution XRD they might get density maps and see the electrons
in practice, you'd probably need neutrons (and deuterium) just to see the H moving (they're doing it right now), but then you don't see the electrons anymore
Actually, I don't even know how you'd do this with computations without mapping out the reaction pathway and looking at the electron density at every step.
@LordStryker for such a clear difference (between H and H^+), it's probably enough to follow atomic charges (use whatever model you prefer, they all have flaws, but that should not be a problem here)
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anyway, gotta go back to work, see you
hopefully I'll have more time to visit Chemistry.SE and the chat in the upcoming months