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Post #Ast4pXmhOMZQA6hvge by [email protected] |
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Some atomic nuclei are round. Others are football-shaped. Some are even stran… |
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Post #Ast5KA0ppFdVPZv1EG by [email protected] |
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@johncarlosbaez What *really* struck me in grad school was how the shell model … |
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Post #Ast5NGN8dXYm0LpXeK by [email protected] |
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@johncarlosbaez What is the shape of a wave function? |
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Post #Ast5dl6W8z75x2vDGq by [email protected] |
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@johncarlosbaez how the heck do you discern between a stable isotope and one wi… |
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Post #Ast5jdVxH7kA9LcfSK by [email protected] |
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In nuclear physics, the magic numbers are 2 8 = 2+6 20 = 2+6+12 2… |
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Post #Ast7RqolH6Tk6a4AUq by [email protected] |
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@johncarlosbaez The nuclear magic numbers can be calculated as double the sum o… |
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Post #Ast8j6lpJfwaSUUD9k by [email protected] |
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@johncarlosbaez some nuclei have even smaller cores? 🤯 |
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Post #AstBe0n2QLGQKDJYDQ by [email protected] |
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@johncarlosbaez Oh, the orbitals... |
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Post #AstHbKMVnXdVsp0guO by [email protected] |
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@antoinechambertloir @johncarlosbaez is this a physics question or a math quest… |
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Post #AstHbKUfJE9sI6pCcK by [email protected] |
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@antoinechambertloir @johncarlosbaez for one electron orbiting an atom, they ar… |
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Post #AstHbKagwoykane10i by [email protected] |
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@CCochard @johncarlosbaez My question is half a joke, half serious.I have been … |
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Post #AstHbKgiaPnctUSpP6 by [email protected] |
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@antoinechambertloir @johncarlosbaez a big part of my teaching is that I strugg… |
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Post #AstHbKlgHxll8smn8i by [email protected] |
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@CCochard @johncarlosbaez OK, so one takes the part where the probability densi… |
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Post #AstHbKsPsv9nTlwAdc by [email protected] |
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@antoinechambertloir @johncarlosbaez if you want to plot it yes. So the shaped … |
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Post #AstHbKyRWVyfmSkz20 by [email protected] |
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@antoinechambertloir - when you ask about the shape of the wavefunction, are yo… |
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Post #AstYiY8efrNrrGYg5I by [email protected] |
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@mc @johncarlosbaez Hypothesis, relying on the fact that mole contain 10^23 ato… |
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Post #AstYiYF2I8UKB3Xm1w by [email protected] |
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@Sobex @mc - Sobex is right. When you have a lot of atoms and a really good de… |
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Post #AstZ2LNznViW6AAkqW by [email protected] |
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@dougmerritt - hmm, that's interesting - is there a logic to it, as there i… |
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Post #AstZDgypqptaFzobMu by [email protected] |
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@sliverdaemon - yes, helium-6 looks kinda roughly like this, two neutrons orbit… |
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Post #AstlmWDz20IqU5H1Oa by [email protected] |
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@johncarlosbaez crazy! thanks for proving an example :) |
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Post #AstmxYyJG1om8zlxFQ by [email protected] |
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@weekend_editor - it is amazing how crude simplifications sometimes work well i… |
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Post #AsuBiRv9giU4mpBelc by [email protected] |
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@johncarlosbaez I tried and failed to find a source for that formula, so for th… |
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Post #AsuCEllBShFXaDvzRw by [email protected] |
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@dougmerritt - When you say you don't trust it, do you not trust that it… |
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Post #AsulkwJ1HkQdx7ptrM by [email protected] |
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@johncarlosbaez Yup. They didn't hand a Nobel to Maria Goeppert Mayer for … |
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Post #AsvI6GZsJ6cbRHvvSi by [email protected] |
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@johncarlosbaez Well, I didn't try it numerically; I just meant that it *mi… |
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@johncarlosbaez @Sobex 🤯 amazing! |
