On Sun, May 31, 2009 at 8:44 AM, thomas malloy <temall...@usfamily.net> wrote: > leaking pen wrote: > > Something to remember. electrons don't actually orbit the nucleus. > they bounce around randomly, perhaps actually appearing and > dissapearing, or, tunneling, within vague cloud like areas known as > orbitals (because of the old Neils Bohr orbital model of the atom. ) > > Perhaps the nucleus is a toroid and the electrons go through the hole in the > center. >
That would be the f orbital. http://www.chemistry.ucsc.edu/~soliver/151A/Handouts/d-orbitals.gif >> When electrons are "shared" in a chemical bond, they bounce back and >> forth between the filled orbitals of the paired atoms, spending >> weekends with daddy and weeks with mommy (mommy being the most >> electronegative of the pair, if they arent the same atom) Now, this >> fact, based on the distances involved in chemical bonds, means that >> >> > > what a classic Generation X analogy! > Considering that the parents who actually have such a setup are generally boomers with their gen x kids, I figured it would be as classic an analogy for the generation that actually HAD such a high number of divorces and split up kids. But hey, whatever floats your boat. >> but it might be. (Favorite chem teacher ever. Was not afraid to say, >> I don't know. ) >> > > wonderful teacher > >> might that form of electron tunneling be your radio signal? jumping >> to orbitals that are the exact same energy, because its the same >> element at the same energy state? >> > > Why not, radio waves are electromagnetic radiation, ditto for light. . > > > --- Get FREE High Speed Internet from USFamily.Net! -- > http://www.usfamily.net/mkt-freepromo.html --- > >
