People always think that quanta are fix size. This is not the case.
Of course are all electron orbits related by simple quantization rules
that again are acting within second order coupling.
So there are lines for certain well known isotopes e.g. the yellow of
Na. But theies lines have a certain thickness, the same as you would
draw it with fat pencil.
Photons can only go into resonance with a line if these match the orbit,
else these get ejected after a "halve turn + angle".
Do also not forget that we live around 290K where all atoms (outer shell
electrons/ chemical bonds) carry excess energy!
J.W.
On 25.01.2021 21:27, Robin wrote:
In reply to Jürg Wyttenbach's message of Mon, 25 Jan 2021 12:15:18 +0100:
Hi,
[snip]
The term quantization has been introduced by German theorist in good old
plain vanilla mechanics of coupled rotating masses.
The term then was transported to QM with. With h' somebody invented the
myth a minimal quantum. Experiments do show that E=hv is just a
proportionality relation nothing else. The frequency can assume any real
valued number. Thus fractions of h' must occur!
Even atomic orbits are not at all strictly quantized as orbits always
have a dopler width.
The point is that they are quantized to some extent, or there would be no lines
at all, just a continuum.
I think that atomic orbits are quantized because all photons have the same
angular momentum. This provides a much
simpler explanation for allowed and dis-allowed atomic transitions than the set
of rules currently used in QM.
In short, the photons, that would be emitted or absorbed, are responsible for
the atomic quantization, not the
electrons.
That leaves the electrons free to behave as you would have it, provided that
they don't need to interact with a photon.
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