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I don't believe anybody can intuitively "visualize" an atom which leads to accurate predictions, especially the electron cloud and it's collapse. Atoms which ma
by akvadrako 6y ago
I don't believe anybody can intuitively "visualize" an atom which leads to accurate predictions, especially the electron cloud and it's collapse. Atoms which manage to stay isolated for long enough are not even localized in space.
- contravariant 6y agoWell you can visualize them well enough for basic chemistry if you just view them as spheres with a certain fixed number of lines (bonds) sticking in or out of them. I don't think anyone would call this model real, but it's arguably more relevant to daily life than more fundamental descriptions.