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I flinched at that too, but the payoff of being able to talk about probability lobes was well worth it. I do think it could handle the electron cloud part bette
by fwlr 4y ago
I flinched at that too, but the payoff of being able to talk about probability lobes was well worth it. I do think it could handle the electron cloud part better. Definitely lead with the electron shell diagram that most normies have actually seen, the incorrect one with the discrete electrons in rings around the nucleus, and THEN say “after you graduated high school, scientists have built cameras that can actually look inside individual atoms, and this is what they see: lobes of probability indicating where the electron most likely is.”
- Swizec 4y ago> after you graduated high school Depends on age. I’m 35 and we did electron rings in middle school and probability orbitals in high school. With no good explanation of course. Just expected to memorize. It didn’t make sense to me until college physics