RE: Why is there gravity?
March 31, 2015 at 1:38 am
(This post was last modified: March 31, 2015 at 1:39 am by bennyboy.)
(March 30, 2015 at 8:48 pm)Alex K Wrote: Yes, in a sense, electrons in some energy level don't have a fixed distance to the nucleus. But strictly speaking there are no such things as electron orbits, there are only wave functions giving you probability of location and momentum. The picture of a pointlike electron orbiting the nucleus is false
Could you then explain in relative layman's terms what "localizing the electrons in a smaller and smaller space near the nucleus automatically lets them have a larger momentum due to the Heisenberg uncertainty principle, which then lets them escape" means? If the electron as a point particle is a metaphor, then it seems that statement relies heavily on that metaphor.
