electrons increase their orbit as they get more energy, and they can only orbit in certain distances. i was wondering if anyone has ever seen an electron moving from one energy level to another, as in they see the electron travel the distance. or does it just seem to teleport.
there is a theorm in math that says if something starts at a and ends at b, it must have passed through a point in between a and b at some point. ive never heard of anyone seeing an electron in the process of changing, does anyone know?
there is a theorm in math that says if something starts at a and ends at b, it must have passed through a point in between a and b at some point. ive never heard of anyone seeing an electron in the process of changing, does anyone know?
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See that's where intuition fails. At the quantum level, things don't pass through b while going from a to c. They just sort of disappear from a and reappear at c. In Greene's Quantum Cafe, customers, who are the quanta in this mythological place are literally popping in and out of the cafe. [See Greene.]
Your math theorem does not apply at the quantum scale of things. Your theorem is deterministic, while events at the quantum level are probabilistic.
So, no, no one has ever seen an electron at b en route from a to c.
Your math theorem does not apply at the quantum scale of things. Your theorem is deterministic, while events at the quantum level are probabilistic.
So, no, no one has ever seen an electron at b en route from a to c.
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I saw it/one yesterday. BLEW. MY. MIND