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which can be real fun

Authored by: Wol on Tuesday, April 02 2013 @ 01:14 PM EDT

like firing electrons (or even hydrogen nuclei) at a diffraction grating! And
yes, they DO get diffracted.

Just like a photon can physically collide with an electron and knock it out of
orbit.

That actually is exactly what Heisenberg's Uncertainty Principle is about, and
why electrons form shells round atoms. The orbit is defined as a standing wave,
and because that has to be an exact number of (half?) wavelengths, that tells
you how far from the nucleus you will *probably* find the electron.
"probably", because it's quantum...

Once you start probing deeply into the fundamental nature of matter, the
difference between waves and particles evaporates - you see what you look for,
things thought of as waves behave like particles, and vice versa.

Cheers,
Wol

[ Reply to This | Parent | # ]

Shells? Collisions? Orbits? Nonsense! - Authored by: Ian Al on Wednesday, April 03 2013 @ 01:42 AM EDT
- Shells? Collisions? Orbits? Nonsense! - Authored by: Wol on Saturday, April 06 2013 @ 07:24 AM EDT

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