Our physics teacher and our chemistry teacher had an ongoing civil riff on whether or not electrons exist.
We’d hear one side of the argument in Chemistry and then parrot it to him in Physics, and he’d give us a rebuttal and we’d parrot it back to her in Chemistry. This went on for about two weeks.
Looking back on it, I’m pretty sure they discussed it in the staff room beforehand, but at the time it felt like a real smackdown.
Wait, what were the arguments for electrons not existing? And by whom? It’s generally accepted that electrons exists and neither of their fields would work if they didn’t. You’d have to go really deep down into “well actually, everything is a wave” terretory to even get that idea and even then it doesn’t make sense.
Yeah that rings a bell, I think it was something to do with its position being a probability density function rather than anything deterministic that orbital mechanics could offer
Our physics teacher and our chemistry teacher had an ongoing civil riff on whether or not electrons exist.
We’d hear one side of the argument in Chemistry and then parrot it to him in Physics, and he’d give us a rebuttal and we’d parrot it back to her in Chemistry. This went on for about two weeks.
Looking back on it, I’m pretty sure they discussed it in the staff room beforehand, but at the time it felt like a real smackdown.
Wait, what were the arguments for electrons not existing? And by whom? It’s generally accepted that electrons exists and neither of their fields would work if they didn’t. You’d have to go really deep down into “well actually, everything is a wave” terretory to even get that idea and even then it doesn’t make sense.
Yeah that rings a bell, I think it was something to do with its position being a probability density function rather than anything deterministic that orbital mechanics could offer