According to the present model of atom, calculation shows that, the speed of the innermost electrons of heavy atoms would approach the speed of light.
Otherwise atom would collapse. Today we know that, in a multi electron atom, there are two types of forces acting on its electrons. They are attraction from the nucleus and repulsion between electrons. In hydrogen atom, attraction from the nucleus only. But these forces cannot make the electrons in an atom in consistent motion. Therefore the atomic orbital model is simply wrong. The concept of the high speed motion of electrons in atoms remind the "Superseded Scientific Theories" like Flat Earth theory or Geocentric Universe theory.
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I think it is simply 'wrong' to imagine electrons as having actual position and orbital motion within an atom. This is merely an artifact of conventional imagination that attempts to resolve the paradox inherant in the dualistic nature of matter as both particle and wave. A given electron only really 'exists' in the sense of a negatively-charged particle interacting with the universe as a probabilistic wave-function having properties of spin and vector.
starmanskye 2 months ago
I'm confused your talking about motion in accelerators affecting the speed of the electron inside the atom. Would the forces in atom not just be due to the relative motion between the proton and electron.
Surely the question is what makes an electron fly around an atom in a certain way in the first place. I have some ideas on this but its very fluid and hard to reach conclusions. Ideas come and you wonder. I'm not believer in quantum mechanics, though quantum effects happen the question is?
photoimagedisplay 7 months ago
Neat video! I am an artist on YouTube trying to promote my theory on the dynamics of light and time
This theory is based on just two simple postulates
1. The first is that the quantum wave particle function explained by Schrödinger’s wave equation represents the forward passage of time or Arrow of Time photon by photon
2. The second is that Heisenberg’s Uncertainty Principle that is formed by the wave function is the same uncertainty we have with any future event
nickharvey7 8 months ago
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snifflesofdeath 8 months ago