Re: electron

Because?

patrick


"Bjoern Feuerbacher" <feuerbac@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> patrick wrote:
>> Ok so an electron small non composite elementary particle.
>> In the hydrogen atom in the ground state what happens with this
>> electron.?
>>
>> The atom is just sitting there not being meausured or observed.
>> 1) Does the electron move in (an unkown) classical Newtonian/relativistic
>> orbit.? and start a new orbit when measured/observed.
>
> No.
>
>
>> 2) Or if its position could be measured does it just materialize at
>> some position according to its wave function when a measurement is made
>> ?
>
> Close, although your use of "materialize" is quite strange here.
>
>
>
>> Or other possibilities?
>
> The probability distribution for the position of the electron is given by
> the wavefunction. That's all we can say. Every attempt to picture this
> with a "charge cloud" or something like that is merely that - a picture.
> Not reality. Such pictures can help one visualize the atom, but one
> shouldn't try to draw any conclusions about the behaviour of electrons or
> atoms from them.
>
> I recommend "The strange world of QM" by Styer to you. He also discusses
> how one can picture a particle which obeys QM.
>
>
> Bye,
> Bjoern


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