Re: Bohr's Atom still number one

The_Man <me_so_horneeeee@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in
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We DO observe that electrons, when their path is changed, radiate
energy.

I thnk you are referring to a synchotron? However, in atoms, though
the elecdtrons are "accelerating", they don't emit photons in the same
manner.

The explanation given at http://bethe.cornell.edu/
(if I understood it correctly) is that 'not even the electrons know where
they are' to a high enough accuracy to be able to 'accelerate' while they
are in their 'orbitals'.

Their location is so uncertain that the probability plots ARE the correct
'picture'.

But they only shows where we can find the electron, they do not imply that
the electron moves in any way that we ordinarily understand things to
move, so it DOES NOT radiate because it is NOT accelerating.

I got the impression that it is only in CHANGING orbitals [energy levels]
that the electron's location/momentum is well enough known BY THE ELECTRON
so that it can emit a photon.

Of course, I may have missed Bethe's point entirely.

--
bz

please pardon my infinite ignorance, the set-of-things-I-do-not-know is an
infinite set.

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