Okay, so here goes:
I've been reading about Niels Bohr and Heisenberg, and the whole nature-of-the-atom thing. Really geeky-cool! But now I have this VERY specific question, one that hasn't been answered by searching through countless webpages.
The electrons going around the nucleus can only exist in certain orbits - and they don't actually travel from one orbit to the next. Instead, they disappear in one orbit, only to reappear in the one above or below.
Alrighty: where are they when they're in between? Since they're like waves, are they actually *cancelling one another out*, like the crest and trough of a wave do? That would make sense, but that conclusion is only an extrapolation from what I've read... and a long shot at best.
Maybe this one of those questions that nobody really knows the answer to, yet? I hope someone can satisfy my curiosity!
Thanks in advance,
-K
2007-09-29
17:12:00
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