Atomic Rant

How should we depict an atom? Like a solar system with electrons orbiting the nucleus on hula hoop orbits? That idea is so last century! Bosi takes us into the quantum world, where an electron's position and velocity aren't well defined - all we can calculate are the probabilities e.g. of finding an electron at different points in space. When we do that, we find electrons do not neccessarily occupy circles or spheres in space. Rather their probability densities make all sorts of interesting shapes from the dumbell to the peanut with the donut around it.

Category:

Film & Animation

Tags:

• atom
• orbitals
• electrons
• model
• quantum
• physics
• uncertainty
• probability
• Heisenberg

[philsense]

1:22 boobies!

[arthurtm13]

Man, your channel is amazing!

[McMuffin989]

What about f orbitals? :o

[KidWonder101]

WHAT'S THE SONG AT 1:03!!!?

[RJHEllis]

what is the name of the hula hoop music?

[Lemenks]

"so my advice to the marketing department of some great corporation who wants to show you how cutting edge they are is that instead of using holahop atoms they should include balloon animals in their corporate logos!" - Well said and I totally agree.

[VellianoRosso]

Pure win

[capefeather]

@buttwang Part of it is that the electrons are so fast that they never fall into the nucleus (just like satellites v=d57C2drB_wc).

[bohmej]

@TheCaphits actually the electron is in more than one place

[t3thethird]

@buttwang That's the strong nuclear force and the weak nuclear force. The reason why atom nuclei don't explode because of the repulsion made by the protons.

[dadsa5]

@buttwang

Because of neutrons