Recent content by k_snelson

It goes without saying that this seventy year old debate can't be proved one way or another -- about chance vs cause and effect. It comes down to temperment. Einstein was a man whose visual sensibilities were strong and were part of how his ideas came to him. Visualizations depend on one thing...

It is curious that people everywhere "know" what an atom looks like since the endlessly reproduced logo-shorthand for the Bohr hydrogen model has become indelible. Strange that charge cloud pictures are much rarer. Maybe it's because those whiz-line electron tracks indicate speed and motion...

In the words of the two men themselves: Einstein “I cannot but confess that I attach only a transitory importance to this interpretation. (Born's) I still believe in the possibility of a model of reality... that is to say, of a theory which presents things themselves and not merely the...

Dear Janitor, Ok, no harm in asking. Along the way in this forum I have been admonished by those who tell me they are experts that I ought to visit here only to ask them questions. Ok, the big question is whether there is anyone anywhere, from Siberia to the Sahara, who might take an...

Thanks janitor for your interest. Can you help me in what you suggest?

Vlamir, thank you – and from Siberia I see, some distance from New York. You put well, “participants in the forum do not take into account that adventurous atmosphere, which reigned in the world in first half of XX centuries” What caused the sea change in atomic physics to non-physical...

Originally posted by Integral Mr. SNelson, Dear Integral and ZapperZ too, I haven't claimed anything except that I've produced an artist’s analog model of the atom based on de Broglie’s original model. How would I have known about de Broglie’s model if I hadn’t studied it in the...

Did you actually read the piece or do you just look at pictures. If you did read it where's your imagination? What did you ever invent or achieve in your profession? Where are your medals? So you got taken?

Alright Zapper, you’ve zapped me. Thanks for your warm encouragement.

Dear Z, We've gone over this same territory several times it seems to me. I don't quite understand what motivates you to spend your time surfing this physics forum apparently looking for arguments to win. For my part I am looking to get some useful feedback on the work I've done and it...

Originally posted by ZapperZ It seems to me the experiment comes first, then the analogy, then the mathematics. Rutherford's people first bombarded the gold foil. From that experiment they learned there was a tiny nucleus. The implication that the electrons must be occupying the rest of the...

I can't remember saying that. All models of the atom are based on analogies of some type. The charge cloud model assumes people know about clouds or vapor. That's an analogy. The Bohr model was an analogy of the solar system. The de Broglie model was based on standing waves from known...

The atom is a genuine physical object down in that submicrospace and it is performing according to its own logical rules. What was missing from the beginning, from Bohr on, was a fitting analogy to work from. Since none came along, the small band of physicists in Germany agreed to avoid the...

_________________________________ That's what doesn't make sense: If we say that two neighboring atoms' electrons cause repulsion between the atoms don't we also have to say that they are equally attracted to one another's nuclear positive electrical fields? After all, we're talking about...

Matter's "solidity"? Where does solidity begin? The familiar saying is: “two things can’t occupy the same space at the same time” -- true of matter but not true of lightwaves that pass through one another without obstruction like ghosts. That matter keeps other matter out is of course true...