"I don't have books, but as an engineer, I get you on this.

For me, I remember that at one time, chemistry was alchemy. We knew THAT something worked, most of the time, but we didn't understand the underlying processes to be able to figure out why it worked, or why it didn't.

In the last couple of days, the first pictures have gone around the net of quantum entanglement. We know so much, but so little about how things interact. Probability goes sideways, we have spooky action at a distance, and we have cooled things to below the lowest temperature in the universe, that of the background radiation from the big bang.

We don't know how everything works. We know that some things work sometimes, but not really why. And that's OK because that's where we are right now. I'd suggest taking a deep breath, and letting go of the need to have chemistry when what we've got right now is alchemy.

Get out your lab logbook, or book of shadows, and note down what works for you and what doesn't. It might not be chemistry, but that does not mean that it does not work, at least sometimes." - Foxglovesanddragons