Re:The Electron Is So Round That It’s Ruling Out Potential N...
by perardi on Saturday April 15, 2023 @04:54PM
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Yeah, I am not used to seeing the term “cloud” for a single electron.
Is that a common term in physics for a single electron? I am very much used to seeing that phrase as the probability space for electrons in orbitals in an atom.
In this article I take it to mean “any point particle has a non-zero physical radius, but because quantum mechanics shows everything has a measure of uncertainty, the possibility of the charge within that non-zero space is an amorphous cloud”. But still a weird lexical overlap with the high school physics electron cloud meaning of things.
Is that a common term in physics for a single electron? I am very much used to seeing that phrase as the probability space for electrons in orbitals in an atom.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atomic_orbital
In this article I take it to mean “any point particle has a non-zero physical radius, but because quantum mechanics shows everything has a measure of uncertainty, the possibility of the charge within that non-zero space is an amorphous cloud”. But still a weird lexical overlap with the high school physics electron cloud meaning of things.