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Can I observe the atomic orbit with a universe sandbox2?
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[QUOTE="Drakkith, post: 6056096, member: 272035"] No, not at all. Once you get down to the atomic scale, quantum effects become so dominant that classical physics is no longer an accurate way to model things. It's not only difficult, it's impossible at this time. Or, rather, scientists who have spent their lifetime working on uniting gravity and the other forces have not yet been successful. It doesn't help that there isn't a single distance. The position of an electron in an atomic orbital is given by an equation called a wavefunction. This wavefunction, instead of giving us a precise answer like it might in classical physics, gives us the [I]probability[/I] of finding the electron at some position. Basically, the electron can be found an just about any distance from the nucleus, just with a greatly reduced probability beyond a certain range. [/QUOTE]
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