RJL738 (August 30, 2008 at 8:22 pm)

I didn't say circular orbit I said sphearical orbit, meening that the electron can't get that much closer or further away from the nucleus, but they can go in any other direction, roughly in the path of a sphear.

frameses (August 30, 2008 at 7:57 pm)

It's more like a 'cloud' than an orbit. It's not a traditional orbit like that of planets around stars.

RJL738 (August 20, 2008 at 1:56 am)

will wiggle slightly in an atom, the electrons travel at roughly 90% the speed of light and orbit the atom in sphearical orbits, one inside the other.

RJL738 (August 20, 2008 at 1:53 am)

You could fit almost 100 quintillion (100,000,000,000,000,000,000) atoms in a grain of sand. The nucleus is about a 100,000th of the width of the entire atom. An electron is almost 2,000 time smaller than a proton or neutron, the neutron is 2 100ths bigger than a proton. Their is a complex interplay of 8 kinds of particles called gluons that are mostly what hold the quarks together and to a lesser extent, what is responsible for the strong nuclier force. Even though quarks and stuff like that

faustolg (August 10, 2008 at 3:19 am)

Perfect explanation...

faustolg (August 10, 2008 at 3:18 am)

LOL!!!

clause4chapter2 (June 1, 2008 at 1:57 pm)

0:50 moleculer boner

dmix09 (May 31, 2008 at 5:49 am)

...word

chickenmcthug (March 27, 2008 at 11:47 am)

"A mystery which goes back thousands of years"??? Who wrote this shit, Billy Graham?

idontbelievereligion (February 17, 2008 at 7:25 pm)

ha! yes, ofcourse they believed the atom was smallest possible thing! thats what atom means! for all you know they could have beeen referring to quarks! just because that is the name we gave to what this is refering to.