Timeline for Protons and Electrons Occupying the Same Space
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| Jun 2, 2022 at 1:42 | comment | added | rob♦ | @john By “relatively cold,” I mean that the average kinetic-energy-slash-momentum of an atomic electron, or a molecular electron, or a conduction electron, is smallish. By “great big,” I mean that the de Broglie wavelength is large, so that the electron can’t be localized into a particle-like volume. | |
| Jun 2, 2022 at 1:24 | comment | added | john | @rob "... but the overlap is small because the electrons are relatively cold, which makes them great big" what do you mean electrons are relatively cold, and then you say great big | |
| Dec 12, 2020 at 2:15 | comment | added | rob♦ | @JánLalinský That sentence works better with its first half still attached. A planet’s orbit around a star is described by six Keplerian parameters, of which five define the ellipse of the orbit and one, the “true anomaly,” tells you the phase of the planet on its path. The Born approach throws away the phase (an unfortunate pun). Born’s $\psi^*\psi$ gives you a probability distribution for the tracks, but it doesn’t tell you where the train is on its way around. | |
| Dec 11, 2020 at 23:23 | comment | added | Ján Lalinský | > " the wavefunction doesn't contain any information about "where" an electron "is" in its orbital." What about Born's interpretation of psi function and X-ray scattering crystallography? | |
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| Apr 18, 2014 at 21:29 | comment | added | Floris | +1 for a clear explanation of the issues - including the fact that weak nuclear decays are caused by electrons "finding themselves in the nucleus". | |
| Apr 18, 2014 at 21:17 | history | answered | rob♦ | CC BY-SA 3.0 |