It's been so long, Honda, I had to look it up. Yeah, I think
Stoichiometry is the CLOSEST POINT between molecular chemistry
and theoretical physics and mathematics. It depends on ideal
forms.* The system it's working is a theoretical perfect closed
system where no mass is wasted.... ...and you really just have
to trust that it's true because there's no ideal closed
environments... there's no ideal gas... and what you get is a
"close enough to be functional" answer, while using all this
extreme precision. I remember it now.* Being part of Classical
Science (Stoichiometry, pre 20th Century... pre 19th
Century...), it was hard for me to accept it completely because
I had already been exposed (mostly through hobby reading) to
quantum mechanics and relativity and complexity theories. I kept
arguing with the chemistry teacher.* "But but but..." and all he
could say is, "I know, I know but you just have to deal with it
because we haven't connected the two yet very well and we might
never be able to". Ugh.
To analogize to biology and "naming things", it's behavioral
biology.* Group dynamics of particular species in a perfect rave
listening to perfect raving music and who pickpockets whom and
who puts date rape drugs in whose drinks and what dances they
are dancing.... ...in a vacuum ...with no visible electricity
...and no gravity... ...and everybody is PERFECTLY spaced apart
in a Brownian motion (ideal gas) ..and no DJ But at least with
molecular chemistry, they have arms and legs... sometimes...