On Thu, Feb 6, 2025 at 6:44 PM Alan Grayson <agrayson2...@gmail.com> wrote:
*> The Rydberg series for the H-atom is countably infinite. AG* > *The mathematical series may be infinite but that doesn't necessarily mean it's physical counterpart is; in fact when physical theories predict infinities that's usually a sign that they're breaking down. Classical electrodynamics worked fine until things got really really small, because it predicted that atoms would radiate an infinite amount of radiation, and obviously that didn't happen, that's why quantum mechanics was invented. * * John K Clark See what's on my new list at Extropolis <https://groups.google.com/g/extropolis>* d6c -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to everything-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/everything-list/CAJPayv3pXXbOHG5e638%3DeQw05E1ozNfmV%2BovPdMR2Y_56U3YQw%40mail.gmail.com.
