If electrons actually 'orbited' a nucleus, then no atoms could ever form The electron would radiate away all its energy and fall into the nucleus in about 10 𝑡𝑟𝑖𝑙𝑙𝑖𝑜𝑛𝑡𝘩𝑠 of a secondpic.twitter.com/5JvjrhpAGl
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What keeps the electron in orbit?!
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So it’s always in a falling state?!
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A (maybe not that much) better way to put it is that it's in an alreqdy fallen state -- but because of Heisenberg uncertainty, the electron can't be localized perfectly at the center.
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Does it? What about a sequence of measurements of position? Just wondering.
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If you measure it one instant after the other it will not move, but as time evolves you’ll see the PDF take shape .. the point is that you’ll never measure a trajectory
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Just reading about quantum mechanics and how it applies to electrons. Mind bending idea that electrons only exist as a probabilistic field until they interact with something and become a particle for an instant of time.
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He meant the gum.
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So textbooks were wrong?
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