• gasgiant@lemmy.ml
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    2 months ago

    If they don’t orbit with any kind of movement then what does that say about Heisenberg’s uncertainty principle?

    We know their mass. So once observed we would know everything about them.

    Unless your saying they just some how jump from one random point in that probability cloud to another?

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      2 months ago

      i’m not sure why you think the uncertainty principle is a “gotcha”, it specifically states that you can’t know both the position and momentum of a particle and thus explicitly contradicts your claim that we’d know everything about them because we know their mass.

      I can’t be arsed to write out a whole scientific paper here so i’ll just link to the probability cloud model of orbitals and hope you can make sense of that.