i think it's time to re-indoctrinate the youthpic.twitter.com/tdi0bFAYOA
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Well, translational, rotational and vibrational degrees of freedom are imho nothing that help understand the essence of electron density or core composition of different atoms.
What? The radial and rotational degrees of freedom and the schrödinger equation are literally all there is to hydrogen quantum mechanically.. If you want to get into a core understanding of atomic structure you need to solve confinement first (a 1m$ prize awaits)
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And for that very reason the image is still wrong. Yet, not denying it's a better representation.
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as long as your willing to take the limit of that and say image you have ever seen of a physical theory is 'wrong' .. the theory that makes your cell phone and internet run so that you can respond are 'wrong'..
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Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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I think the criticism that it doesn't depict the distribution of probability density very well is fair. The bounds are clearly illustrated, but the distribution is not.
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@InertialObservr indicated (basically) he was showing the 3d plot of the Y_{l,m}(\theta,\phi) vs. \theta and \phi, so he was not showing bounds. The surface obtained by plotting Y_{l,m}(\theta,\phi) is not the same as an isoprobability contour surface. - 1 more reply
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