Molecular Modeling

I reviewed most of this week's links, struggling to find one that made any sense at all to me. Some moved too fast; two dimensions didn't do much to help me; one site depicted many different tri-colored blobs. But, I liked the water model. The depiction of the hydrogen molecules in motion, bonding and breaking (at a pace that I could actually watch), reminded me of irregular waves caused by raindrops splashing in a puddle. I could connect the notion of the weak hydrogen bonds breaking and reforming with an image of water droplets splashing apart in a puddle and then rebonding (becoming part of the puddle).