tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6130126685334700207.post6105609038675141279..comments2023-09-09T07:55:53.277-07:00Comments on El Pollo Real: Ecce LUMOchickelithttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10773887469972534979noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6130126685334700207.post-33020749989723845382012-12-18T16:34:34.062-08:002012-12-18T16:34:34.062-08:00Rutherford was thinking: sure you can knock an ele...Rutherford was thinking: sure you can knock an electron into a higher, more distant orbit, but how does the electron "know" what distance and energy to select? In his mind it was like goosing a satellite's orbit. Bohr's answer was that only orbits having integer values were "allowed"; an electron wouldn't take on half the energy to get to the LUMO state; the LUMO demanded the whole integer! chickelithttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10773887469972534979noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6130126685334700207.post-31296008960457012222012-12-14T18:40:38.619-08:002012-12-14T18:40:38.619-08:00When Bohr first proposed that electrons jumped fro...When Bohr first proposed that electrons jumped from orbit to orbit say in atomic orbitals (analogous but simpler than <i>molecular</i> orbitals like HOMOs and LUMOs), he was challenged by Rutherford: how would the electron "know" where to go and where/what is it in transit? chickelithttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10773887469972534979noreply@blogger.com