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Re: Fastest Light Pulses Show Electrons Are Sluggish

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Your mistake, once again, is thinking that the electron orbits the 
nucleus like the Earth orbits the sun, with a period of 100 attoseconds, 
or whatever that number was that you pulled out of your butt.  Quantum 
Mechanics doesn't work like that. A planet orbiting its sun (or a little 
ball electron orbiting its bigger ball nucleus) has a definite position 
at any point in time, its location in some orbit.  At the same time, it 
has a definite momentum, forward along its orbit.  Heisenberg's 
Uncertainty Principle tells us we cannot know the uncertainty to more 
than a certain accuracy (hbar).  For something as large as a planet, this 
is irrelevant. However, for an electron, if you try to nail down its 
position to a certain spot in some orbit, the uncertainty in its momentum, 
and therefore energy, will be huge, and you have no idea which way it 
is going or how fast, and it will likely have to have more energy than 
it needs to escape the atom.  Similarly, if you constrain the momentum 
to be smaller than a certain number (so it doesn't have enough energy 
to escape), you won't know where the heck it is. Oh, you'll know it 
will be nearish the nucleus, this is what gives atoms their size, but 
you will have no idea where it is beyond that. 

The Bohr model has been dead for over 100 years.  Get with 21st century 
science! 
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Mr Moroney has an excellent way of explaining things to kooks.

I wish I had this ability. I'm far too busy laughing at them, but I do wish to become a better human being

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Fastest Light Pulses Show Electrons Are Sluggish Sam Wormley <swormley1@gmail.com> - 2016-02-03 15:38 -0600
  Re: Fastest Light Pulses Show Electrons Are Sluggish shan <shan@enterapps.org> - 2016-02-03 22:18 +0000
  Re: Fastest Light Pulses Show Electrons Are Sluggish "reber g=emc^2" <herbertglazier0@gmail.com> - 2016-02-03 14:25 -0800
    Re: Fastest Light Pulses Show Electrons Are Sluggish john <johnsefton288@gmail.com> - 2016-02-03 14:51 -0800
      Re: Fastest Light Pulses Show Electrons Are Sluggish Sam Wormley <swormley1@gmail.com> - 2016-02-03 18:30 -0600
  Re: Fastest Light Pulses Show Electrons Are Sluggish "reber g=emc^2" <herbertglazier0@gmail.com> - 2016-02-04 15:00 -0800
    Re: Fastest Light Pulses Show Electrons Are Sluggish john <johnsefton288@gmail.com> - 2016-02-04 15:15 -0800
      Re: Fastest Light Pulses Show Electrons Are Sluggish Sam Wormley <swormley1@gmail.com> - 2016-02-04 18:06 -0600
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        Re: Fastest Light Pulses Show Electrons Are Sluggish john <johnsefton288@gmail.com> - 2016-02-04 19:47 -0800
          Re: Fastest Light Pulses Show Electrons Are Sluggish john <johnsefton288@gmail.com> - 2016-02-05 03:39 -0800
          Re: Fastest Light Pulses Show Electrons Are Sluggish moroney@world.std.spaamtrap.com (Michael Moroney) - 2016-02-05 14:56 +0000
            Re: Fastest Light Pulses Show Electrons Are Sluggish john <johnsefton288@gmail.com> - 2016-02-05 07:11 -0800
              Re: Fastest Light Pulses Show Electrons Are Sluggish Odd Bodkin <bodkinodd@gmail.com> - 2016-02-05 09:18 -0600
              Re: Fastest Light Pulses Show Electrons Are Sluggish Odd Bodkin <bodkinodd@gmail.com> - 2016-02-05 09:31 -0600
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              Re: Fastest Light Pulses Show Electrons Are Sluggish john <johnsefton288@gmail.com> - 2016-02-05 11:56 -0800
              Re: Fastest Light Pulses Show Electrons Are Sluggish moroney@world.std.spaamtrap.com (Michael Moroney) - 2016-02-06 05:58 +0000
                Re: Fastest Light Pulses Show Electrons Are Sluggish john <johnsefton288@gmail.com> - 2016-02-06 01:25 -0800
                Re: Fastest Light Pulses Show Electrons Are Sluggish moroney@world.std.spaamtrap.com (Michael Moroney) - 2016-02-07 04:58 +0000
                Re: Fastest Light Pulses Show Electrons Are Sluggish HVAC <mr.hvac@gmail.com> - 2016-02-06 04:42 -0800
  Re: Fastest Light Pulses Show Electrons Are Sluggish "reber g=emc^2" <herbertglazier0@gmail.com> - 2016-02-05 13:08 -0800

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