Yes, try to get Bohr's model working for more than one electron. It doesn't.

Quantum theory describes electrons more accurately as "clouds of potential," and further defines a field of potential places you might be likely to maybe find an electron at a given point in time. The closer you approach the actual spot an electron might be, the more likely you are to find it there.

Of course, we haven't yet imaged the dance of electrons around an atom, but I prefer to think of it as a random, bounciness that shifts in wierd patterns dictated by the mutal repulsion of each electron in that particular shell. This chaotic dance probably is linked to uncertainty in some way (IMO.)

There is NOTHING on any scale mentioned that has such strange behavior. A simple scaling up, or down, of planetary motion just won't suffice.

It does not match the data.

Jeff, you've got a nice head on your shoulders and an inquisitive nature. Why waste it on questions that have already been answered to the satisfaction of generations? I know, I know... that's how breakthroughs are made, paridigmn this and that an' all. But think. We can stand on the shoulders of giants and actually DO something.

Yeah. That's my buck fifty.

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