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Understanding atoms.
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RE: Understanding atoms.
December 17, 2008 at 3:50 pm (This post was last modified: December 17, 2008 at 3:51 pm by Purple Rabbit.)
(December 17, 2008 at 3:43 pm)CoxRox Wrote: It's amazing. Does the proton really look like that, like a planet? How are the forces 'locked in' or applied without 'leaking' out?
No it does not!

It's just a simple model of an atom. Electrons don't move in planetlike orbitals around the nucleus. You are entering the domain of quantum mechanics that is ....well....a bit uncomprehensible for humans.
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Understanding atoms. - by CoxRox - December 17, 2008 at 3:00 pm
RE: Understanding atoms. - by LukeMC - December 17, 2008 at 3:08 pm
RE: Understanding atoms. - by CoxRox - December 17, 2008 at 3:13 pm
RE: Understanding atoms. - by Edwardo Piet - December 17, 2008 at 9:28 pm
RE: Understanding atoms. - by Purple Rabbit - December 17, 2008 at 3:24 pm
RE: Understanding atoms. - by CoxRox - December 17, 2008 at 3:27 pm
RE: Understanding atoms. - by Purple Rabbit - December 17, 2008 at 3:40 pm
RE: Understanding atoms. - by Purple Rabbit - December 17, 2008 at 3:48 pm
RE: Understanding atoms. - by Tiberius - December 17, 2008 at 3:33 pm
RE: Understanding atoms. - by CoxRox - December 17, 2008 at 3:43 pm
RE: Understanding atoms. - by Purple Rabbit - December 17, 2008 at 3:50 pm
RE: Understanding atoms. - by Tiberius - December 17, 2008 at 3:48 pm
RE: Understanding atoms. - by LukeMC - December 17, 2008 at 3:48 pm
RE: Understanding atoms. - by CoxRox - December 17, 2008 at 3:53 pm
RE: Understanding atoms. - by Purple Rabbit - December 17, 2008 at 3:55 pm
RE: Understanding atoms. - by CoxRox - December 17, 2008 at 3:56 pm
RE: Understanding atoms. - by Purple Rabbit - December 17, 2008 at 3:58 pm
RE: Understanding atoms. - by LukeMC - December 17, 2008 at 3:57 pm
RE: Understanding atoms. - by CoxRox - December 17, 2008 at 4:01 pm
RE: Understanding atoms. - by LukeMC - December 17, 2008 at 4:06 pm
RE: Understanding atoms. - by Purple Rabbit - December 17, 2008 at 4:13 pm
RE: Understanding atoms. - by CoxRox - December 17, 2008 at 4:07 pm
RE: Understanding atoms. - by LukeMC - December 17, 2008 at 4:12 pm
RE: Understanding atoms. - by CoxRox - December 17, 2008 at 4:20 pm
RE: Understanding atoms. - by Darwinian - December 18, 2008 at 2:54 am
RE: Understanding atoms. - by Tiberius - December 18, 2008 at 3:11 am
RE: Understanding atoms. - by CoxRox - December 18, 2008 at 5:54 am
RE: Understanding atoms. - by Edwardo Piet - December 18, 2008 at 10:15 am
RE: Understanding atoms. - by CoxRox - December 31, 2008 at 10:42 am
RE: Understanding atoms. - by Darwinian - December 31, 2008 at 11:11 am
RE: Understanding atoms. - by CoxRox - December 31, 2008 at 11:49 am
RE: Understanding atoms. - by Purple Rabbit - December 31, 2008 at 12:30 pm
RE: Understanding atoms. - by Darwinian - December 31, 2008 at 12:09 pm
RE: Understanding atoms. - by CoxRox - December 31, 2008 at 12:56 pm
RE: Understanding atoms. - by Darwinian - December 31, 2008 at 1:31 pm
RE: Understanding atoms. - by Edwardo Piet - December 31, 2008 at 2:26 pm

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