In reply to Mark Iverson-ZeroPoint's message of Fri, 23 Sep 2011 01:07:14 -0700: Hi, [snip] >In a free H atom, in a vacuum chamber, not influenced by outside objects or >fields, but due to subtle interactions with the proton oscillations, the e- >oscillation will randomly rotate about that center and OVER TIME, the >averaged-out shape that our detectors gives us will be in the form of a >sphere. Thats where the lack of resolution (on a length AND TIME basis) in >how weve probed atomic structure has led to useful, but not physically >accurate, models. Its also the reason why the probabilistic model (QM) was >more accurate than the classical model
Spot on IMO. Note however that this doesn't rule circular orbitals out. It just makes them uncommon. Regards, Robin van Spaandonk http://rvanspaa.freehostia.com/project.html
