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Listener Questions 17: hamsters, black holes and higgs fields!

Daniel and Kelly’s Extraordinary Universe

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Is the Electron Orbiting?

When we talk about electrons andi the end, we always say, the electron is orbiting. Is it? Because it's sort of like an analogy, you know, like an orbit is canalika a stable energy level? Yes, i think we probably shouldn't use the word orbit, because it's very misleading, but i think it's historical. We've started from a classical idea, and we've been gradually moving more and more towards these quantum ideas. So now we talk about noorbitos, which represent like energy densities. It just sounds like a probability to be here, in probability to be there.

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