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I didnt know were to post this so it just goes here :).
(btw I'm in 9th grade so complexity is not an option.)
photons have zero mass, and zero rest energy.
are they a wave? or a particle?
If it has zero mass how can it be anything at all?
If its a particle, how can it exist without mass?
If there a wave...well, wtf is a wave without particles?
I have been studying chemistry and it is these questions, or ones similar to them that make me won't to stab something.
trying to understand atomic orbitals and electron configuration is easy. until you start trying to understand how N,L, and m changes the shapes,sizes, and orientation of orbitals.
and why m doesn't only change the orintation
i.e.
n3l2m0
is 2 balls with a ring around it but.
n3l2m1
is four balls.
I might be stupid and the answer be simple and easy but for the moment I am frustrated as hell!
forgive spelling errors
(btw I'm in 9th grade so complexity is not an option.)
photons have zero mass, and zero rest energy.
are they a wave? or a particle?
If it has zero mass how can it be anything at all?
If its a particle, how can it exist without mass?
If there a wave...well, wtf is a wave without particles?
I have been studying chemistry and it is these questions, or ones similar to them that make me won't to stab something.
trying to understand atomic orbitals and electron configuration is easy. until you start trying to understand how N,L, and m changes the shapes,sizes, and orientation of orbitals.
and why m doesn't only change the orintation
i.e.
n3l2m0
is 2 balls with a ring around it but.
n3l2m1
is four balls.
I might be stupid and the answer be simple and easy but for the moment I am frustrated as hell!
forgive spelling errors