BSG CORP Posted November 29, 2007 Share Posted November 29, 2007 Heisenberg or why the electrons don't fall in the nucleus According to the classical Physics , electrons, being attracted by the nucleus of the atom, should fall inside it and so all matter should collapse. Heisenberg was the first to explain why this doesn't happen and the matter is solid. The answer was in his famous indetermination principle that can be "explained" in this way. The electrons have a kind of "vibration" that increases as we force them in a smaller space and the nucleus is so small that there is no way to force them there unless we use a very big force. It is as if we have a few people around in a room : they will move around doing something. If the room get smaller the same people will move more and more and this creates a kind of pression that forbids at some point to the room to became smaller.This jitter motion of electrons is sometime called zitterbewegung and arises from attempting to localize the particle or from interaction of the particle with potential(a force). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
iNow Posted November 30, 2007 Share Posted November 30, 2007 Hello Poster, Do you work at CERN too? http://zito.web.cern.ch/zito/aleph/myths.html#heisenberg Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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