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When I was taught the planetary model of atoms I was quite suspicious. My reaction was - you can't be serious ... to ... are you making fun of me ... to... just because you have a hammer ...

Few years later orbitals were introduced as, essentially, motion blurs formed by our little zippy guy. I approached our teacher and asked what if that 'motion blur' is all there is and that billiards ball electron is just a bed-time story. That's an adequate way to think he said. Electron mass gets more difficult to explain to school kids in this line of thinking.



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