Gibbs Free Energy

I am teetering at the brim of progress The self I spend to be of worth Is the same self that I had to earn And to what end? I ask, At what fee? The ones that stand down do so for free And all that’s left is work for me (Fr , PdV) I hauled up, masochistic Sisyphus All they did was balk Scatter, Jack and Jill Emptily talk About how hard, how far Never I could not And then for an instant I was on top [King parenthetical] They stood with their calculators Screaming But negative RTlnKeq ??? Kb T times ln W ??? Enthalpy minus T entropy, Gives us the standard energy ??? I saw the people finally sap It was halfway forward to halfway back I felt something snap And I fell unfathomably far To a different bottom A different problem I stood intermediate at the foot of the unknown Before a taller peak to dethrone -- Note: Gibbs Free Energy (delta G) is a thermodynamic parameter used to describe reactions and stability in chemistry. It is common to see a diagram of delta G vs. reaction progress. These free energy diagrams consist of continuous curves with peaks and troughs. The lower the energy, the more stable. Unfortunately you have to have significant background knowledge in chemistry to understand every reference.