Erwin Schrodinger and Werner Heisenburg
Niels Bohr, a Danish physicist, proposed the idea that electron paths cannot be precisely predicted. This concept is known as the "Copenhagen interpretation" of quantum mechanics, which suggests that the behavior of particles on a quantum level is inherently probabilistic.
The concept that paths cannot be predicted is often attributed to Edward Lorenz, a meteorologist and mathematician. His work in chaos theory and the famous "butterfly effect" highlighted the sensitivity of certain systems to initial conditions, leading to unpredictable outcomes.
The idea of the path of an electron being unpredictable was presented by Werner Heisenberg. It was "packaged" as "Heisenberg's uncertainty principle" and that's how we know it today. What Heisenberg actually said was that if we look at an electron, the closer we look at its momentum, the less certain we are about its position. And if we look closely at its position, the less certain we can be about its momentum. There is a trade-off when we look for precision, and we cannot have our cake and eat it too. It's one or the other as regards accuracy.
Orbitals. Not to be confused with orbits. They don't actually move in 'paths' either. Due to their nature, you cannot determine the exact location of an electron and still know where it will be next. (See "Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle") Orbitals actually are mathematical functions which describe the probability of finding an electron in a given space.
It doesn't make a lot of sense to talk about an electron's path, because electrons in atoms don't have paths period, whether circular, elliptical, or banana-shaped. They have orbitals, which despite the similarity in sound are not at all the same thing as orbits.
Niels Bohr, a Danish physicist, proposed the idea that electron paths cannot be precisely predicted. This concept is known as the "Copenhagen interpretation" of quantum mechanics, which suggests that the behavior of particles on a quantum level is inherently probabilistic.
The concept that paths cannot be predicted is often attributed to Edward Lorenz, a meteorologist and mathematician. His work in chaos theory and the famous "butterfly effect" highlighted the sensitivity of certain systems to initial conditions, leading to unpredictable outcomes.
Electron paths cannot be predicted with certainty, as they exhibit both wave-like and particle-like behaviors. The Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle states that it is impossible to know both the position and momentum of a particle with absolute precision, leading to unpredictable paths at the quantum level.
Schrodinger and Heisenberg state that electrons cannot be predicted in 1927. It was stated that the more precisely the position of some particles are determined, the less precisely its momentum can be known.
Kevin Lopez
In the electron cloud model, electrons are predicted to be located in the electron cloud 100% of the time. This model suggests that electrons do not orbit the nucleus in fixed paths like planets around the sun, but rather exist as a probability distribution around the nucleus.
Erwin Schrodinger and Werner Heisenburg
Comets are falling rocks, whose paths can be calculated quite precisely.
The idea of the path of an electron being unpredictable was presented by Werner Heisenberg. It was "packaged" as "Heisenberg's uncertainty principle" and that's how we know it today. What Heisenberg actually said was that if we look at an electron, the closer we look at its momentum, the less certain we are about its position. And if we look closely at its position, the less certain we can be about its momentum. There is a trade-off when we look for precision, and we cannot have our cake and eat it too. It's one or the other as regards accuracy.
Yes the paths make the atom easier to read than having to draw electrons all over the atom model
Kepler discovered that the planets orbit the sun in oval shaped paths called ellipses.
Orbitals. Not to be confused with orbits. They don't actually move in 'paths' either. Due to their nature, you cannot determine the exact location of an electron and still know where it will be next. (See "Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle") Orbitals actually are mathematical functions which describe the probability of finding an electron in a given space.