Heisenberg indeterminacy and the fine structure constant (original) (raw)
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Abstract
Two elementary connections are drawn between the Heisenberg relations for photons and for electrons and the maximum number of protons in a nucleus that will permit a stable electron orbital.
Publication:
American Journal of Physics
Pub Date:
July 2004
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Keywords:
- 01.50.-i;
- 32.10.Fn;
- 31.10.+z;
- 03.65.Ge;
- 03.65.Sq;
- Educational aids;
- Fine and hyperfine structure;
- Theory of electronic structure electronic transitions and chemical binding;
- Solutions of wave equations: bound states;
- Semiclassical theories and applications