----- Original Message -----
From: Jones Beene <jone...@pacbell.net>
Date: Wednesday, March 25, 2009 4:50 pm
Subject: RE: [Vo]:ref QED
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Horace Heffner
>
> > In fact, some molecular orbitals exist in a figure 8
> configuration, where
> the center of the 8 is the nucleus, thus guaranteeing constant nuclear
> traverses.
>
> [JB:] Understanding the figure 8 configuration is perhaps the most
> importantbasic challenge in QM and it can also be said that most
> theorists are simply
> not "up to the task".
speaking of figure eights...
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Harry
> However, I would add that "guaranteeing constant nuclear
> traverses" is a bit
> of a reach in this regard ....
>
> The following observation may or may not help with that
> understanding of 2p
> orbitals- but - if you think about a capacitor as being able to
> "pass" AC
> current, and current consists of, well it consists at least partly of
> electrons - then the nuclear-cap can be a decent analogy (i.e with the
> nucleus as a kind of capacitor)... but of course there is the
> argument that
> it is "not the same electron"...
>
> However, in Dirac's universe - is not the electron the epitome of
> "fungibility"?
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fungibility
>
> When I wrote that word "fungibility" I was almost certain that it
> would not
> be in Wiki, but heck, it is getting pretty damn hard to come up with
> anything
that is not in Wiki these daze...
>
> Jones
>
> BTW here is some interesting commentary on 2p orbitals that adds some
> credence to the idea that indeed it is "not the same electron"
> that crosses
> the nucleus ...
>
> http://winter.group.shef.ac.uk/orbitron/AOs/2p/index.html
>
>
>
