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Can you make matter out of pure electrons?

Daniel and Kelly’s Extraordinary Universe

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The Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle

electrons are quantum particles, so they don't have classical paths. Every solution to the Schrodinger equation has a minimum energy when there's any sort of confinement. The stationary state is mostly outside the nucleus, but there's some probability for them to be inside the nucleus at any time. But not really, right? Because it's a whole quantum. It's just a probability.

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