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From: eddy@boulder.Colorado.EDU (Sean Eddy)
Newsgroups: sci.physics,sci.research,sci.misc
Subject: Re: Einstein's relativity and daily life
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Date: Thu, 1-Oct-87 20:27:20 EDT
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Summary: X-ray crystallography and viruses
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In article <694@cfa.cfa.harvard.EDU> willner@cfa.harvard.EDU (Steve Willner) writes:
>Another application that comes to mind is X-ray diffraction analysis,
>which is widely used for studying crystals of all kinds.  Studies of
>semiconductors and viruses probably have had the greatest practical
>effects, but I'm not really sure how important the relativistic
>corrections are.

Please tell me this isn't true. I've just set about trying to learn
the principles of X-ray crystallography, as they apply to the
determination of biological structure. I am having enough difficulty
with classical theory (Bragg's law, etc.); am I really going
to have to consider relativity too?

- Sean Eddy
- MCD Biology, University of Colorado at Boulder; Boulder CO 80309-0347
- eddy@boulder.colorado.edu