Atomic Structure

[StrangeLife]

When I saw the name of this thread, I expected a discussion of Charlize Theron kicking ass in leather or something equally enticing. But instead I found a bunch of nerds debating actual physics!

Talk about subversion of expectations....

https://i.imgur.com/FnZUxSU.jpg

 

[FGB]

Yeah.

The whole Gravity of the situation is ridicules!

 

[Bud_Spencer]

The way they teach it in school, it's like a beautiful miniature version. You could imagine our galaxy as just another atom in some even larger galaxy... things to blow your mind when you're stoned.

In reality, is the electron even there? Or everywhere? It's only probably anywhere until it's observed, and then suddenly it was there all along. There's a theory that the universe could contain just the one electron, being everywhere at every time, and the ridiculous part is that it's not that ridiculous. Things to make your head hurt when you're sober.

The more you learn, the less you understand. Every new answer supplies a thousand new questions.

Robins navigate using quantum entanglement, with the electrons in their eyeballs. Shit like that makes the mysteries of space look pretty basic.

I'm not sure that theory holds water, insofar as an ampere is one coulomb of electrons moving past a point in one second. If there's only one electron, there's no such thing as current.

 

[LukSkyFokker]

Atomic Punk

 

[GeorgeSoros]

I'm not sure that theory holds water, insofar as an ampere is one coulomb of electrons moving past a point in one second. If there's only one electron, there's no such thing as current.

Fractions.

 

[Chernosoth]

Yeah, the "planetary" model of atom, while descriptive at elementary school level, is long outdated.

Elections rather form probabilistic clouds than orbits, and while some energy levels are spherical, others aren't. And that's before the craziness of quantum world where particles move between allowed states separated by exclusion states, without even necessarily really moving, but rather popping in and out of existence.

Many misunderstandings of physics seem to start with trying to make everything act as particles because that's what we can label and observe.

 

[dolf]

I'm not sure that theory holds water, insofar as an ampere is one coulomb of electrons moving past a point in one second. If there's only one electron, there's no such thing as current.

That's the common sense talking

You're assuming that electrons have any damn respect for linear time as we perceive it, and move predictably as particles. But electrons only exist as a probability in any set, specific point in time and space until they are observed, and then they suddenly exist there and then f'real. So it really could be the same electron being a cloud of electrons or even a flow.

I mean, it probably isn't, but it possibly is.

 

[oneblueye]

hey...

^^^
Someone's trying really hard to look smart after all of the incredibly stupid shit he's posted in the past.

WAIT A MINUTE---!
Aren't you supposed to be dead.