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[–] [email protected] 50 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Remember, if it doesn't come from within an atomic orbital it's not an electron, it's just sparkling beta radiation.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 7 months ago

But if you sparkle only in sunshine, you're an Emo vampire. Know the difference! /s

[–] [email protected] 38 points 7 months ago

"The song expands to hold you both" is beautiful

[–] [email protected] 36 points 7 months ago
[–] [email protected] 24 points 7 months ago (1 children)

this makes me feel inadequate as a writer

[–] [email protected] 12 points 7 months ago

Little maudlin for my taste, but it is a solid metaphor

[–] Donnager 6 points 7 months ago (2 children)

Electrons do not even have size

[–] [email protected] 5 points 7 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago

A property almost but not entirely unlike angular momentum.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago

I'm not sure what you mean? what are you referring to when you say size?

Electrons have a local volume of space over which they exert forces, non uniformly with increasing magnitude. Attempting to restrict the volume of space an electron can exist in increases the magnitude of these forces.

Size to me is a classical scale approximation, like temperature or state of matter. Electrons aren't distinct subatomically in not have precisely defined boundaries of interaction so I am confused about whether you mean something else.