Friday, 4 September 2020

In Lowest Energy-level ELECTRONS IN AN ATOM ARE MOTIONLESS


The idea that electrons are rapidly and constantly moving around the nucleus is simply a mental construct of Rutherford and Bohr. In fact, in lowest energy level, the electrons in an atom are almost in a state of complete rest. Hi, I am Femila Joseph. Our understanding of the universe is very limited. This is why phenomena like UFO still remain unexplainable to our present day science and technology. UFOs are real and defence organizations like pentagon also started to publicly accept its authenticity. Our current knowledge about what is matter, what is energy, what is space and time etc are incomplete or far from the truth. To explore the universe and how it works, we need to make a radical change in how we observe it. Here we will discuss the historical development of today's atomic theory and what's wrong with this theory. The cathode ray experiment has helped, J.J. Thomson for the discovery of  the electron and he proposed, the plum pudding model of the atom. He conceptualized an atom as the negatively charged electrons - the plums - are arranged in a positively charged pudding. However, the Rutherford's Gold foil experiment has proved that, most of the mass of an atom, is concentrated in a very small positively charged region in the centre of the atom called nucleus. He proposed, the nuclear model of the atom. To explain atom’s volume and stability,  and also, to explain, how an atom produces its spectral lines, Niels Bohr proposed the planetary model or the Rutherford-Bohr model of the atom. He proposed that, the electrons in an atom are rapidly moving around the nucleus in different energy levels or orbitals. Bohr used this idea to explain, how an atom emits, and absorbs, photons. De Broglie proposed his matter wave hypothesis, with the assumption that, electrons are moving around the nucleus as proposed by Bohr.  Two experimental physicists Davisson and Germer conducted experiments with electron beams. They have collided electrons on a nickel crystal target, and observed, the diffracted electron’s behavior and found that, moving electrons exhibit wavelike behaviour as suggested by De Broglie. Finally, by incorporating Niels Bohr's idea of the rapid motion of the electrons around the nucleus, and De Broglie's matter wave hypothesis, Ervin Schrodinger developed, the currently accepted wavemechnical or atomic orbital model of the atom. According to this model, electrons in an atom exist around the nucleus as standing matter waves or electron clouds, in different energy levels or orbitals.  However, even though Rutherfords the gold foil experiment has proved that the positively charged nucleus is situated in the centre of the atom, this experiment did not provide any information about the state of the electrons in the atom. Infact the idea of the constant motion of the electron around the nucleus is only a mental construct of Rutherford and Bohr, and there is NO evidence for this kind of motion for electrons. Additionally, Davisson and Germer have performed, matter wave experiments with artificially created electron beams. Therefore, this experiment, does not have, any significance, to the structure of the atom in the real world. Atoms in the universe are exposed to one or more of the following energy backgrounds: Conduction, convection and radiation. Hence, the electrons in the atoms are influenced by one or more of these backgrounds. By simply observing the radiations emitted by an atom, we can understand how much the electrons in that atom are excited or in motion within it. On the other hand, if an atom has a zero radiation from it, we can understand that the electrons in that atom are almost in a state of complete rest.


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