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September 19, 2009
The Atom's First Portraits
Posted by Vanderleun at September 19, 2009 12:26 AM. This is an entry on the sideblog of American Digest: Check it out.
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Those are the electron shells: S and P, I believe. Predicted mathematically, they are harmonic standing waves at different energy levels. I can't believe we can see them now. As we detect the states of the electron shells directly, an atom can become a processor switch with the different detectable states as data. This will get interesting....
Posted by: Gray at September 20, 2009 12:17 AM