Chemistry is a wierd field It's too complex to be perfectly predictable, like particle physics But without instruments,you have to hope the nanoscale changes

Chemistry is a wierd field It's too complex to be perfectly predictable, like particle physics But without instruments,you have to hope the nanoscale changes are slow and visible in solution at 1,000,000x larger scale The fact that we can throw shit in a beaker and identify useful reactions is a hell of a thing. Our magic balls are the only thing that take it much beyond it's origins in alchemy.