On Sat, Mar 23, 2013 at 5:27 PM, <[email protected]> wrote:
> Now let the > entire ellipse swing around the focus like a hoola hoop. We have a second > form > of angular momentum (l). Note that the electron itself is still following > the > original trajectory around the perimeter of the ellipse as well, so it now > has > two forms of angular momentum. Remove it from the atom altogether, and it > has > neither. > Interesting idea regarding an angular momentum from the precession of an ellipsoid probability distribution around the nucleus. According to Terry's link [1], the putative electron spin will always either be aligned with or against a magnetic field. What's to make this kind of precession not be a spherical one, e.g., such that the movement of the ellipsoid over time rather than being planar instead cancels out any magnetic moment? [1] http://www.chemistry.mcmaster.ca/esam/Chapter_4/section_2.html
