• wholookshere
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    10 months ago

    They don’t make “discrete jumps” as in teleportation. They exist stable in discrete energy levels, but that doesn’t imply things don’t move continuously.

    • bstix@feddit.dk
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      10 months ago

      ORLY?

      Please take your evening off to explain to the common man how electrons are distributed without restoring to quantisation.

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        10 months ago

        That’s not what I said?

        They’re “stable” energy states. That’s all.

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          10 months ago

          If you want my credentials, the second book is deriving the hydrogen atom.

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          10 months ago

          And that they might still move continuously. Which is impossible to prove (see Planck length).

          Edit: Corrected my statement based on the reply