Number Theory and the Periodicity of Matter

Some years ago the German doctor of chemistry Peter Plichta published a revolutionary theory in which he is claiming matter and energy to be encoded in numbers. Because the style of Plichta_s writings, see God's Secret Formula: The Deciphering of the Riddle of the Universe and the Prime Number Code, was not always appropriate for scientific argumentation, he could not overcome the initial resistance to his ideas and was seen by the multitude as a mere crank. It was even not advisable to refer to Plichta in a serious scientific paper Therefore, this book by Jan Boeyens, one of the leading professors of theoretical chemistry, and his coauthor is an extraordinary event, indeed the Newest Kind of Science, see also Chemistry from First Principles. We can be sure that in some years any student of chemistry and physics will be confronted with this new way of thinking, rooted in Plichta's original idea of the prime number cross.