The real significance of this research, Mavrikakis says, is less about basic chemistry and more about offering a way forward as chemical engineers work to predict and synthesize new catalytic materials, with the ultimate goal of replacing platinum and palladium with more affordable metals.
When Time Shall Be No More is so thoroughly
researched and so comprehensive in scope it is difficult to imagine that any critical historian will try to retell the story for decades to come, The only
real problem with this truly magnificent book is that Boyer strains to locate the
significance of prophecy belief where it does not exist, or exists only inconsequentially: in the realm
of secular politics.