1/ using the word "spin" here is a very bad idea, because it's overloaded.https://twitter.com/ItsRobbAllen/status/1037748179985461248 …
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6/ There is energy gained / lost as an electron changes which shell its in. This energy is emitted as photons when an electron drops down a tier, and is gained from absorbing a photon, heat, chemical means, etc. Because shells are quantized, photonic emissions are quantized
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7/ This is why elements have their characterisic spectra.
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8/ Agreed. Climbing to higher shells, or leaving the outermost shell, CONSUMES energy. Dropping into a shell / lower shell emits energy. Ionizing radiation is bad bc it breaks electrons loose from their atoms...IN YOUR BODY https://twitter.com/BrowningMachine/status/1037755203683082245 …
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I think that's the part I'm having a hard time with. It exists in a cloud of probability, but... it doesn't SIT at a spot, it moves. Hence 'electron degeneracy' as pressures increase.
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this is where you lose me, because a probability cloud is just the current (bad?) mathematical model of reality, but not actual reality, because reality does have state. i'm still waiting for better models. i like the aether & fluid dynamics models but it's out of favor.
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You're asserting something that I have not had physicists assert, and - indeed - which they assert the contrary of. The default model is that the probability cloud is not a shitty model (the way we might use a probability distribution for a shuffled card), but the ACTUAL REALITY
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