Re: pinhole transition metal ions electron configuration

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From: Ellen Koivisto (igneous@earthlink.net)
Date: Wed Jun 29 2005 - 08:01:55 PDT 

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From: Ellen Koivisto <igneous@earthlink.net>
Subject: Re: pinhole transition metal ions electron configuration
Date: Wed, 29 Jun 2005 08:01:55 -0700

Drat, then I'll have to keep working on it. Hopefully, I'll figure
it out soon....

Thanks Paul.

Ellen
SF, SOTA

On Jun 28, 2005, at 9:03 PM, Paul Doherty wrote:

> Hi Ellen
>
> Alas it requires wave properties for the electrons to miss the
> protons.
>
> Paul D
>
>
> On Jun 28, 2005, at 8:19 PM, Ellen Koivisto wrote:
>
>
>> Does the density difference causes the electron to miss?
>> Identical size charges but huge differences in mass and volume,
>> with the electrons like huge fog clouds or really giant ghosts and
>> the protons like sumo wrestlers condensed to say book-size without
>> any loss of mass -- that's close to the number differences. In
>> that case, even though they have equal and opposite charges, it
>> would be as if they existed in only slightly overlapping
>> universes. A ghost trying to hold a mini but massive sumo
>> wrestler would find it impossible and the wrestler would find it
>> equally impossible. So in that way the electron could miss. Is
>> that at all close to how the electron can bumble through the
>> nucleus without glomming on permanently?
>>
>> If so, that would be fun.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Ellen Koivisto
>> SF, SOTA
>>
>>
>> On Jun 28, 2005, at 7:57 PM, Paul Doherty wrote:
>>
>>
>>> Hi Ellen
>>>
>>> I love what you do here.
>>> In answer to the last question, the particle model electron falls
>>> in toward the nucleus under the electrical attraction to the
>>> protons, it misses the protons and then continues out the other
>>> side.
>>> Or, Like the moon orbits the earth the electron orbits the nucleus.
>>> With the difference that the electron's wave nature has more
>>> effect than the wave nature of the moon.
>>>
>>> Paul D
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
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