This is not a quantum mechanical model. The actual wavefunction for anjy n, l=0 is spherical.
2013/5/30 Axil Axil <[email protected]> > To my best understanding, in energetic hydrogen the electron orbits move > further away from the nucleus, not closer. > > * * > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Sommerfeld_ellipses.svg > > > > Quantum mechanically a state with abnormally high *n* refers to an atom > in which the valence electron(s) have been excited into a formerly > unpopulated electron orbital > <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atomic_orbital>with higher energy and lower > binding > energy <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Binding_energy>. > > <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Sommerfeld_ellipses.svg>, > > The low binding energy at high values of *n* explains why Rydberg states > are susceptible to ionization. > > > > > On Thu, May 30, 2013 at 7:38 AM, Terry Blanton <[email protected]> wrote: > >> On Thu, May 30, 2013 at 1:11 AM, MarkI-ZeroPoint <[email protected]> >> wrote: >> >> > The theories of hot fusion were built up from research on plasmas >> > and they do work well when dealing with plasmas, but LENR is NOT >> occurring >> > in a plasma. >> >> Are you sure? Maybe not a plasma; but, possibly close. DGT >> speculates that highly energized hydrogen has the electron in a >> extreme elliptical orbit and, when at its apogee, the nucleus is >> "exposed" for a brief period. >> >> But that is only one of a plethora of theories that we read about on >> Vortex-L. :-) >> >> > -- Daniel Rocha - RJ [email protected]
