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To: decimon
In the case of electrons, the situation is much more complicated because electrons should not actually have any spatial dimension.

This is where a layman goes "huh"?

Physicist: Well the electron is really really small so it doesn't have spatial dimensions.

Layman: Wouldn't it just have really really small spatial dimensions?

Physicist: No...because it is really really tiny.

Layman: If it's a physical object isn't it required to have spatial dimensions even if they are really really tiny...cuz otherwise it isn't really a physical object right?

Physicist: Uhm...(after a few moments and said condescendingly) You would understand if you were a physicist.


12 posted on 07/20/2010 2:12:49 PM PDT by Durus (The People have abdicated our duties and anxiously hopes for just two things, "Bread and Circuses")
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To: Durus

Mass is crass.


13 posted on 07/20/2010 2:19:20 PM PDT by decimon
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To: Durus; decimon

If the electrons are like a ‘shell’ around the atoms and ions, wouldn’t they be like the ‘shells’ that are the outer layers of our atmosphere?

Or like the Van Allen radiation belt?


43 posted on 07/20/2010 8:18:21 PM PDT by UCANSEE2 (The Last Boy Scout)
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