look at OP's picture they're just flat rings it only looks like 3D motion because there's a lot of them
Why does electrons hover around the core of the atom instead of moving towards protons...
Jonathan Anderson
Caleb King
Before an electron is observed it exists in a superposition of all possible states, effectivly an assembly of different probabilities. A certain number of those states will be inside the radius of the nucleus. However once the electron is observed the probability collapses to a single state. the most likely state is (off the top of my head) [math]3a/4 [/math] where [math] a [/math] is the Bohr radius, normally when we do some experiment like this we take a large number of electrons and then look at the average, which is predicted (and experimentally verified) to be [math] a [/math].
The take away points from this are:
>The electron has no definite position before a measurement is made
>On measurement, the probability distribution collapses to single state
>The most likely position is [math] 3a/4 [/math]
>It has a small, but non-zero, probability of being found within the radius of the nucleus.
Zachary Turner
god doesn't play dice
Thomas Nguyen
>Einstein pls go
But seriously at this point it's pretty clear the man lost that debate (hell it was pretty clear during his life time).
Jaxson Stewart
>attract one another
because electrons hate each other
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