but this is how it was this morning, before anyone else gets to it...
as you will notice, -only- archi's psosts are flagged for abuse.
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spin in physics with monopoles existing Chapt13.4.01 Particle Physics
table #897 New Physics #1017 ATOM TOTALITY 5th ed
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Sep 14
Archimedes Plutonium
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Archimedes Plutonium wrote:
> whole entire Universe is just one big atom
> where dots of the electron-dot-cloud are galaxies
there is no "electron dot cloud"
there is a "probability density" which
is oftentimes portrayed -as- a 'cloud'
but that portrayal does -not- suggest that
the hydrogen nucleus is surrounded by a
myriad of myriad of electrons.
-please- fix you .sig file.
Sep 14
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Re: nonphysicists who open their mouths in physics Re: #1017 ATOM TOTALITY 5th ed
Archimedes Plutonium wrote:
> Timothy Sutter wrote:
> > Archimedes Plutonium wrote:
> > > whole entire Universe is just one big atom
> > > where dots of the electron-dot-cloud are galaxies
> > there is no "electron dot cloud"
> > there is a "probability density" which
> > is oftentimes portrayed -as- a 'cloud'
> > but that portrayal does -not- suggest that
> > the hydrogen nucleus is surrounded by a
> > myriad of myriad of electrons.
> > -please- fix you .sig file.
> The electron dot cloud is the best possible interpretation of the psi
> function. But don't tell that to Tim.
nonsense, any "cloud" is only a -portrayal- of
> If you cannot say the "electron dot cloud"
> then all you can say is psi.
> Now if Tim were around during the days of Galileo where Galileo said
> the Earth moves and circles around the Sun, then Tim would have popped
> up there also.
no, but Bohr theory which actually does have a single electron
orbitting a nucleus in a manner somewhat like that of
planetary motion, fails outside of this single case.
admit it, Archimedes, you metaphor is wholly unworkable
as a true representation of any actual reality.
our solar system doesn't even behave in a manner
consistent with the wave forms of the hydrogenlike atom.
> So, now, which of these two Tim's is the most ridiculous Tim? Is the
> Galileo Tim who thinks that Earth must be stationary and flat in order
> for people not to fall off.
this does not resemble anything said by me here
nor anywhere else that you wil acually be able to show.
this representation exists only in your mind.
> Or the Tim of the psi interpretation who
> thinks that electron dot clouds is some fairy tale explanation.
dood, there is no cloud of elctons orbitting any nucleus.
there is a region of =probability density=
which is -portrayed= by some as a cloud but which
does -not- even begin to sugget that a cloud of
electrons actually inhabit a given
electronic orbital.
-you- are making it sound as if there are
trillions of electrons inhabitting a -single- orbital
when it is strictly -impossible- some say, "forbidden"
for more that -two- to inhabit a given elecronic orbital
i say again, -please- change your 'sig file.
it is misleading.
but, buy all means, if accuracy is not
your main concern, then keep on making
this allusion.
etc.
Sep 14
Archimedes Plutonium
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Sep 14
Re: electrons don't look like anything as they cannot be seen
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the "electron cloud" -is- a descriptive -device-
descriptive -of- the =probability density=
where the =probability density= is a function of the
-probability- of finding one electron in a given spacial region.
the -reason- that some people show this as a cloud of dots is
that the harmonic orbitals give us only upwards of 90% certainty
of finding the electron and so, the closed space images are not,
strictly speaking, the truest picture of what is actually going on.
part of this is due to the fact that an "infinite series" is
integrated only up to two or three terms and the successive
terms are truncated and left off and not integrated.
this is considered "ok" because the first two or three terms
of the infinite series take the lion's share of the probability
and the remaining terms quickly diminish to a negligible state.
it has ZERO to do with any idea of smashing an electron to
smithereenies and imagining the smashed up electron
actually forms a dust cloud around the nucleus.
i'm certainly glad that you do -not- think that the "electron cloud"
is actually a myriad of electrons surrounding a nucleus
but neither is it representative of a smashed electron.
it is...now get this,
it, the "electron cloud," is only a descriptive -device-
and it is descriptive of,...the =probability density=
> So your mistake Tim, is that you think a electron is a tiny solid ball
> that revolves around a nucleus. What the psi tells you is that the
> electron has a probability of being in a specific spot.
not a specific spot, a specific spacial -region-
as far as what -i- think about an "electron"
an electron could be a phantom
that is solely descriptive of force field interactions
and some mathematical models "work" which attest to its,
the electrons, "reality"
see, and what you are suggesting is that, the electronic orbitals
are really spacial regions with electronic force behaviors spread
out along the entire region and that there really is no electron
to speak of at all.
-not- that there is some sort of disintegrated ball
scattered throughout such a spacial region, with some
unknwoable elctronic charge associate with each
shattered and scattered fragment.
and, the large objects which make up galaxies and stars
and galaxie clusters are operating in a gravitational field
and the electronic interactions are negligible and the chemical
atomic forces are electronic and the gravitational effect is
negligible and you have yet to show me how gravitational
fields align in discrete energy levels and not
a continuous spectrum.
etc.
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Sep 14
Re: mistake of not knowing ...
Archimedes Plutonium wrote:
> Timothy Sutter wrote:
> > Archimedes Plutonium wrote:
> > > Timothy Sutter wrote:
> > > > Archimedes Plutonium wrote:
> > > > > whole entire Universe is just one big atom
> > > > > where dots of the electron-dot-cloud are galaxies
> > > > there is no "electron dot cloud"
> > > > there is a "probability density" which
> > > > is oftentimes portrayed -as- a 'cloud'
> > > > but that portrayal does -not- suggest that
> > > > the hydrogen nucleus is surrounded by a
> > > > myriad of myriad of electrons.
> > > > -please- fix you .sig file.
> > > The electron dot cloud is the best possible interpretation of the psi
> > > function. But don't tell that to Tim.
not when you say things like this;
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"""So as we cool Helium-4 to that of 2 Kelvin, why would one of the
electrons convert from its down spin to be a up spin and have two up
spins in that suborbital?"""
see, you speak of spin states orbital population
and these spin states and orbital populations are
best described -by- an integral electron and not by
any sort of dust cloud.
how do you propose to assign an integral spin quantum state
to a dust cloud?
etc.
Timothy Sutter Sign in to reply
Sep 14
Re: electrons don't look like anything as they cannot be seen
no animals will be hurt during
the course of these next
several sentences.
if you have a bowling ball and
you stick the bowling ball in
a cardboard box in which
a refrigerator came,
then you could say that you know
where the bowling ball is, only
that you don't know exactly where it is,
because you just know that it's
in the cardboard box somewhere.
it's in there somewhere, and given that
you left a lot of packing material in the box,
the ball may not be on the bottom of
the box, but could be anywhere in the box.
it's in there somewhere.
now, you leave the room,
if you feel like it,
but you don't have to,
and someone else comes in and takes
the ball out of the refrigerator box,
and sets it into a color television box.
now, you come back and look at the new box,
and you can say that you know the ball is
in that box somewhere,
and, seeing that the box is smaller,
your knowledge of where the ball is
is a little bit clearer,
but, it's still in there somewhere.
now, your assistant takes the ball
and places it into a small green
trash bag that -just- fits over
the ball, and now, you can prwactically
see the shape of the ball,
and you can say that you know
fairly well where the ball is,
it's right there in the bag.
the container -just- fits over it.
now you start working with
much smaller objects, and
what you find eventually,
is that you cannot make container
small enough for you to have as
clear an image of where the ball
is as you had with the bowling
ball in the trash bag.
this because the stuff you have
to work with to make a box for
your object, itself -contains-
the objects you are trying to observe.
the stuff you have for making containers
has an inherent spacial void which
cannot be overcome by your ingenuities.
so, for these tiny objects,
within their own tiny little containers,
you basically get back to a bowling
ball in a cardboard refrigerator box
and find that the best you can say is;
"it's in there somewhere"
always realizing that the container
is a bit larger that the object,
-but- you can get a fairly, not
so bad, idea of where the refrigerator box is,
or, in this case, the single 'atom' of tungsten.
so, you know where the little particle is.
for all practical purposes,
it's in the little box somewhere.
and you pretty much know where the little box is.
a bowling ball you can hold in your hand.
an electron is already in your hand.
whether there actually is such
an object as an electron, inasmuch
as you can't see it, is moot,
some set of phenomena,
taken together and looked
at independantly, seem to
behave as if such a thing
as an electron does,
in fact, exist.
it's somewhere in the box
and the box is right there.
Timothy Sutter Sign in to reply
Sep 14
Re: electrons don't look like anything as they cannot be seen
> and you pretty much know where the little box is.
or, like a bowling ball in a baseball stadium.
and this bowling ball is self propelled
and spinning around the stadium.
you know exactly where the baseball stadium is.
and the bowling ball in there
somewhere,
spinning around.
and, we don't -have- to say
that the baseball stadium
is the size of the perceived universe,
and that the bowling ball is -just-
"somewhere in the universe"
cuz then, of course, we'd be entirely sure,
but we can be quite sure even in baseball stadiums
that are -much- smaller that the perceived universe
and even say that in a baseball stadium
the size os a small glass of water,
there is a clear certainty that -many-
electrons are contained therein.
for a fact.
and believe it or not, we can reduce
the size of that baseball stadium
even further, and know that
some phenomenon
which could be likened to
a spinning bowling ball,
is definitely in there.
see, a snowflake
is your baseball stadium
and you can be sure that there are
quite a lot of many bowling balls
in that baseball stadium
because that baseball stadium is,
itself, -constructed- of things that
behave just like tiny spinning
bowling balls.
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Sep 14
Re: electrons don't look like anything as they cannot be seen
"classical mechanics" simply does not work as the 'best explanation'
when applied to teh behaviors of very small things, like electrons,
and, so-called "quantum mechanics" was developed to provide a more
correct explanation for phenomenon associated with
very small objects and light.
as the moon travels around the earth
any electrostatic interaction/s
will be buried under the much
larger gravitational forces.
if you shrink the earth and moon
to very tiny proportions,
there comes some point when
the gravitational forces
are somewhat comparable to
the electrostatic interactions.
at this point, the gravtitational forces
would be so small and not enough to hold
the earth and moon in orbit about each other,
and the tendency would be for the
moon to fly away from the earth
sort of like, if you had a ball on
a string and were spinning it
around your finger,
and, if you cut the string,
the ball would go flying off away from you.
but now, with the really
very tiny moon and earth
with a gravitational force that
would tend towards them flying apart,
the electorstatic interaction starts
to play a significant role
and the two bodies, with nearly
equal and opposite charges
are being held together by this force, while
at the same time, trying to fly apart from
each other because the gravity is very
weakly unable to hold them together,
but, the two bodies do not simply become
glued together and form a de facto single body,
because, in this dimensional range,
the two forces, gravity and
electrostatic interactions
are so ideally matched
that, the flying apart
and the attracting together
are bound up in a "harmonic oscillation"
sort of like the electrostatic interaction
constitutes what amounts to a tiny spring
string which holds the two together even
as they would be flying apart.
and the two oscillate with "harmonics"
very much like the "harmonics"
of musical instrumentation.
the "music of the spheres,"
as it were.
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Sep 15
Re: electrons don't look like anything as they cannot be seen
> and, the large objects which make up galaxies and stars
> and galaxie clusters are operating in a gravitational field
> and the electronic interactions are negligible and the chemical
> atomic forces are electronic and the gravitational effect is
> negligible and you have yet to show me how gravitational
> fields align in discrete energy levels and not
> a continuous spectrum.
see, another problem is, let's say the moon
is slowly drifting away from the earth, not
entirely hypothetical as some people suggest
that the moon is, in fact, slowly drifting
away from the earth,
ok, so, in this drifting, the moon is passing
thru a continuous spectrum of energy states
and is -not- doing what electrons seem to do,
which appear in one state, a ground state lets say,
and then, appear in a higher -discrete- energy state
and never make an appearance in some
state -between- ..say, 1S and 2Px
so, the stars and galaxies and planets and all that space dust
is not found in discrete energy states, but...apparently,
in a rather continuous spectrum of energy states.
and this behavior is not at all -like- a universal plutonium atom.
we wouldnt be getting pelted with meteorites if there was
such a discrete set of possible energy states as on the atomic level.
this first year student is not convinced...
Sep 15
Archimedes Plutonium
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Sep 15
Re: electrons don't look like anything as they cannot be seen
Archimedes Plutonium wrote:
> Timothy Sutter wrote:
> (snipped)
> > the "electron cloud" -is- a descriptive -device-
> > descriptive -of- the =probability density=
> The psi function is the electron dot cloud. Both are equivalent
> geometry representations. You are probably still in Precalculus, Tim,
> to be able to
> mathematically prove that the psi function is the very same thing as
> taking a
> electron and smashing it into 10^40 tiny pieces and to replace the
> dots with a
> "bit of the electron".
there is never any real moment when an electron
is a smashed cloud of 10^40 tiny pieces
> Tim, you would have to have taken at least Symbolic Logic and
> differential geometry to prove that these two statements are the same
> thing:
> A. the hard ball electron has a psi probability of finding that whole
> electron in a specific point of the atom
not quite, that's the whole bloody point,
> B. if we smash the hard ball electron into 10^40 tiny pieces and
> placed those pieces on the psi probability dots
at -best- you'd be considering the energetic
wave form pattern as a diffuse discrete packet.
-not- as if an electron was scattered in the breeze.
> And secondly, from the book you are reading about the psi; try looking
> forward in that book you are reading to where they talk about
> collapsed wavefunction and uncollapsed wavefunction. Because you see,
> in your stance, the electron is always a hardball whole object and so
> there cannot be a collapsed or uncollapsed wavefunction.
you might like to look into molecular orbital theory
and consider how atomic orbitals show an overlap
when bonding occurs.
orbital 'hybridization' and the gaps between the highest
unoccupied molecular orbital and the lowest unoccupied
molecular orbital and how this contributes to bonding.
people don't say that the electrons are smashed to smitereenies
they say that the waveforms hybridize and overlap.
see, the spacial regions overlap because
they are of similar energy status.
ut as you would have it, it wouldbn't be the orbitals that hybridize,
but the electrons themselves that hybridize and this would lead to
some violation of Pauli exclusion, i'm sure.
you'd end up with two electrons sharing the -same- quantum numbers.
> But if you see A and B are the same thing, then a collapsed
> wavefunction is when the electron is a hardball whole object such as
> electricity flow in current, and where the electron as tiny pieces of
> 10^40 pieces of a dot cloud is the electron uncollapsed wavefunction.
so, you do allow as that the electron is quite well modeled as a
hardball.
now all you have to realize is that this hardball is a blurry little
phantom
that occupies a -state- just like Idaho, only its -address- is unknown.
> > where the =probability density= is a function of the
> > -probability- of finding one electron in a given spacial region.
> A collapsed electron wavefunction, but that does not allow the
> electron as a uncollapsed wavefunction.
i think you need to ponder this some more.
all the "interpretting" in the world isn't going
to smash the electron in to smithereenies
you -do- have electric -fields- to deal with,
sure, fine, not a problem
but like i said, at -best- your smithereenies contention
is -trying- to see the electronic field strngth of the
entire box with the whole spinning =charged= critter inside it.
> > the -reason- that some people show this as a cloud of dots is
> > that the harmonic orbitals give us only upwards of 90% certainty
> > of finding the electron and so, the closed space images are not,
> > strictly speaking, the truest picture of what is actually going on.
> >part of this is due to the fact that an "infinite series" is
> >integrated only up to two or three terms and the successive
> >terms are truncated and left off and not integrated.
> >this is considered "ok" because the first two or three terms
> >of the infinite series take the lion's share of the probability
> >and the remaining terms quickly diminish to a negligible state.
> >it has ZERO to do with any idea of smashing an electron to
> > smithereenies and imagining the smashed up electron
> >actually forms a dust cloud around the nucleus.
> Your now waffling off tangent.
not quite, the infinite series -is- truncated
there is a consequence to this.
etc. etc. etc.
Timothy Sutter Sign in to reply
Sep 15
Re: electrons don't look like anything as they cannot be seen
> you might like to look into molecular orbital theory
> and consider how atomic orbitals show an overlap
> when bonding occurs.
> orbital 'hybridization' and the gaps between the highest
> unoccupied molecular orbital and the lowest unoccupied
> molecular orbital and how this contributes to bonding.
excuse me, that's
orbital 'hybridization' and the gaps between the highest
-> occupied molecular orbital and the lowest unoccupied
molecular orbital and how this contributes to bonding.
lowest unoccupied
^ [gap]
|
highest occupied
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Michael Moroney Sign in to reply
Sep 15
Timothy Sutter <a20...@lycos.com-> writes:
>Archimedes Plutonium wrote:
>> whole entire Universe is just one big atom
>> where dots of the electron-dot-cloud are galaxies
>there is no "electron dot cloud"
>there is a "probability density" which
>is oftentimes portrayed -as- a 'cloud'
>but that portrayal does -not- suggest that
>the hydrogen nucleus is surrounded by a
>myriad of myriad of electrons.
Good luck convincing Archie of that. He's been spewing that crap for
nearly 20 years.
My personal guess is that he encountered a diagram of the electron
probability density in a cheap high school chemistry book with primitive
printing techniques, where they represented high probability with lots of
dots close together and low density with few dots. Kind of like old B/W
newspaper photos made of dots, except newspaper photos use bigger/smaller
dots for dark/light and not more/fewer dots. (I have seen such
chemistry books)
He just took the diagram (way) too literally.
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Sep 17
Re: mistake of not knowing ...
Timothy Sutter <a20...@lycos.com-> wrote in
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Tim, give up. You will never persuade AP that he's wrong. Don Quixote
will defeat the windmill first.
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Sep 17
Re: the wave nature of Don Quixote
> >Archimedes Plutonium wrote:
> >> whole entire Universe is just one big atom
> >> where dots of the electron-dot-cloud are galaxies
> Timothy Sutter writes:
> >there is no "electron dot cloud"
> >there is a "probability density" which
> >is oftentimes portrayed -as- a 'cloud'
> >but that portrayal does -not- suggest that
> >the hydrogen nucleus is surrounded by a
> >myriad of myriad of electrons.
Michael Moroney wrote:
> Good luck convincing Archie of that. He's been spewing that crap for
> nearly 20 years.
<...>
David Bostwick wrote:
> Timothy Sutter wrote
> Tim, give up. You will never persuade AP that he's wrong.
> Don Quixote will defeat the windmill first.
i had no intention of chasing it around forever...
Brian Salter-Duke Sign in to reply
Sep 17
Re: mistake of not knowing ...
On Mon, 17 Sep 2012 09:13:05 -0500,
David Bostwick <
david.b...@chemistry.gatech.edu> wrote:
> Timothy Sutter <a20...@lycos.com-> wrote in
> news:5053E5...@lycos.com-:
>
> Tim, give up. You will never persuade AP that he's wrong. Don Quixote
> will defeat the windmill first.
Agreed, but as Pauli once remarked about someone else's ideas, AP is not
EVEN wrong!
--
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Salmon Egg Sign in to reply
Sep 17
Re: mistake of not knowing ...
In article <GDN5s.1331$
Wo3...@viwinnwfe02.internal.bigpond.com>,
Brian Salter-Duke <
b_d...@bigpond.com.au> wrote:
> Agreed, but as Pauli once remarked about someone else's ideas, AP is not
> EVEN wrong!
I miss Uncle Al.
--
Sam
Conservatives are against Darwinism but for natural selection.
Liberals are for Darwinism but totally against any selection.
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Sep 17
Re: mistake of not knowing ...
"Salmon Egg" <
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In article <GDN5s.1331$
Wo3...@viwinnwfe02.internal.bigpond.com>,
Brian Salter-Duke <
b_d...@bigpond.com.au> wrote:
> Agreed, but as Pauli once remarked about someone else's ideas, AP is not
> EVEN wrong!
I miss Uncle Al.
--
Sam
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Sep 17
Re: mistake of not knowing ...
"Salmon Egg" <
Salm...@sbcglobal.net> wrote:
> Brian Salter-Duke <
b_d...@bigpond.com.au> wrote:
>
Brian Salter-Duke wrote:
>> Agreed, but as Pauli once remarked about someone
>> else's ideas, Archie-pooh is not EVEN wrong!
>
Sam wrote:
> I miss Uncle Al.
>
Why?
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Sep 18
Re: mistake of not knowing ...
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Boy, this is like old home week.
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