In reply to Jones Beene's message of Tue, 1 Nov 2011 13:15:21 -0700: Hi, [snip] >When the electron is not bound in a periodic motion of some kind around the >nucleus, there is NO orbital.
This describes the case when ordinary QM applies. >When there is no orbital there can be NO fractional orbital. Miley makes this >clear. Mills most definitely does describe an orbital. Personally, I think both can be valid, but that the orbital case is (much?) less common. Regards, Robin van Spaandonk http://rvanspaa.freehostia.com/project.html
