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Watch hydrogen atom wavefunctions smoothly transition between quantum states (n,l,m) This is the actual probability density of finding the electron; not just static orbitals, but the real quantum dance as it morphs between energy levels.

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Bellaciao6 months ago

People learn orbitals as static shapes, but what you’re really seeing here is probability density itself smoothly deforming between states. That makes quantum mechanics feel less like a set of formulas and more like motion. The electron is not a tiny ball circling somewhere. It is a structured cloud of possibility, reorganizing itself through symmetry, phase, and energy.

Craig Liddicoat6 months ago

Imagine the "electron clouds" as zones of rarefied(-) slower spinning vacuum space-fabric, oscillating back & forth with central nuclei ("proton/neutron") zones of highly compressed(+) superpositioning, very fast spin .. a 3D radial-orbital standing wave?

Seth BRKV6 months ago

It's only a depiction. In real life we don't know whether the transition is instantaneous or smooth, and how it actually unfolds. Can we here measure energies in the transitional states?? Would be interesting to see

labendicion6666 months ago

app?

Piyush6 months ago

@Petucato

Alphonse Reitz6 months ago

This visualization reminds me of lensing around a black hole..

Cyril Voyant6 months ago

Physics is inspiring with this kind of simulation!

Redeem3146 months ago

Absolutely fascinating but so outside my expertise. I do wonder if somehow we could utilize the quantum structure for exotic materials like super conductors. But I’m sure much smarter people than I are already working on it

David5D6 months ago

This is a very cool visualization of the hydrogen atom, almost resonant

✝️🇪🇦V💚XOϵλIλ😏Εὐγενὴς ψυχή • 𝖷𝖨:𝖷𝖨6 months ago

I’m obsessed with this! Seeing the hydrogen probability density morph through the quantum numbers n, l, and m instead of just static shapes is incredible. This is how you actually visualize the wave function.

AetherBee6 months ago

😍

Ben6 months ago

With math we can teach math to have pixels represent physics

Jenny Cotan6 months ago

Interesting! And it was mentioned in our Chemistry lessons! Quantum "eye candy", ain't it?

Martianartisan6 months ago

Beautiful

Jean-Philippe DeCaen6 months ago

@MinuteofZombie

Raúl R Romero6 months ago

Higher dimensional for sure.

ThiirdEyeTribe6 months ago

This is fantastic

Lewis Walker6 months ago

It’s a great visualisation. It “screams” projection operators

Stevarino10206 months ago

"Probability density ? " How desperate . The deeper it goes the more desperate it gets. Electron spin ? How without angular momentum? Once you explain one thing you have to suspend logic and reality to explain its consequences. The Higgs Boson -barely exists but somehow confers matter to the Universe,It goes on and on.

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