Not long ago, we had it pretty much figured out.
How about a hundred years ago, when scientists were struggling to explain some unusual properties. It was as if Mars suddenly popped from its own orbit out to Jupiter. Discrete chunks that cannot be subdivided, specific minimum quantities called quanta. Electrons had to be here or there and simply nowhere in between.
Not long ago, we thought we had it pretty much figured out.
As mysterious as it might be, … atom to act this way, the evidence quickly mounted showing that Bohr was right.
More and more experiments.
Bohr argued that the quantum leap arises from a fundamental, and fundamentally weird, property of electrons in atoms: that their energy comes in discrete chunks that cannot be subdivided, specific minimum quantities called “quanta.” And that’s why there are only discrete, specific orbits that electrons can occupy.
Think of your daily life. When you eat food, you think your food is quantized? Do you think that you have to take a certain amount of minimum food? Food is not quantized. But the energy of electrons in an atom are quantized.
Are not just telling us about small things, they’re telling us about reality.
It has passed so many tests.
