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A helium atom tearing itself apart. Two electrons circle the nucleus, swapping energy back and forth. Then one drops inward and kicks the other one out. Those rings rolling across the fabric are the escaping electron. Hydrogen can't do this because it only has one electron.

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little grey mouse 🐭21 hours ago

correct me if i am wrong, but if helium loses an electron it's still a helium atom (in an ionized state).

Dave Miller1 day ago

would like to see the transition of one electron from an s-orbital to a p-orbital and the additional angular momentum that entails.

James1 day ago

is that 'emitting light'(photon) at the end?

The Fool23 hours ago

If that central helium nucleus were swapped for a single-proton hydrogen nucleus while maintaining both interacting electron wave packets, the resulting 𝐻⁻ ion would undergo the exact same process.

William Selby1 day ago

#inert

Si Vis Pacem / Æ 🇪🇺 🇨🇭 🇮🇹23 hours ago

Why would that ever happen? Helium is extremely stable!

Richard Phillip1 day ago

so beautiful 👏🤩🔥

Gary Lee23 hours ago

If you understood how, and why, this simulation works your jaw should be on the floor. You can ask. But then again, virtually all academic mathematicians & physicists hate math & physics and don't care. They only love pretending to be smarter than everyone.

Sergey Popach21 hours ago

typically, total two-electron wavefunction must be antisymmetric under exchange of the electrons because they are identical fermions.

Rita O Ryan21 hours ago

Hydrogen lives a lonely life....but only one electron escapes?....what happens to the other one?...science, mysterious indeed

Qiran Stevinus1 day ago

@grok on what scientific theory is this model based on. Be specific and detailed as much as possible.

Sergey Popach21 hours ago

however… lets say if both electrons are extremely excited! nature always seeks for the lowest ground energy state, so one electron can give up its energy to second one, dropping to lowest energy, but receiver could have enough energy to ionize!.. that’s possible

Ball Diamond Ball21 hours ago

"Drops inward" how, without unlikely beta capture to 4H?

짚신21 hours ago

그림이 멋지게 니왔다, 전자가 알갱인지 구름인지는 구분은 되지 않고..신형 스타일로 변신했다, 하나는 그냥있고, 두개면 서로 찢어진다? 역학관계가 복잡해서 이해가 어렵다,

Marta Rodriguez21 hours ago

☑️🌀

Sergey Popach21 hours ago

the exodus of escaping electron as perfect rings rolling across fabric in all directions is idealization, of course, assuming it doesn’t interact with noisy environment.. in reality, entanglement decoherence would destroy this electron’s beauty

Sergey Popach21 hours ago

this is very questionable… two fermions should be able to occupy the same spacial state (orbital) if they have opposite quantum spin orientation

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