Pinning Electron Theories is Like Trying to Nail Jelly to the Wall

Image via WikipediaScienceDaily (May 15, 2008) — When atoms form molecules, they share their outer electrons and this creates a negatively charged cloud. Here, electrons buzz around between the two positively charged nuclei, making it impossible to tell which nucleus they belong to. They are delocalized. But is this also true for the electrons located closer to the nucleus? And are those electrons spread out too, or do they belong to just one nucleus, i.e. are they localized? These questions, that scientists have hotly disputed over the last 50 years, have now been answered by an international team of scientists, led by Frankfurt University's atomic physics group. Their discoveries are reconciliatory. As is so often the case in quantum theory, there is no single 'right' answer -- one solution is just as valid as the other.

Don't you just love quantum 'stuff' (technical word), whenever a scientist tries to pin it down, we find that "there is no single right answer", more proof indeed that life is what we make it. Yes, they can measure to a point, but just when they (the scientists) think they have a definitive answer, it slips away again. I love it!

Scientists will go on trying to prove their theories and all of them will up until.... the jelly slips back off the pin and all the while they are proving that life responds to our thoughts, expectations and beliefs.