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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)

An excretion(accretion) disc points to a different phenomenon causing the orbits. As opposed to a shell representing probability and energy level. But they are similar.

All this to really point out that I too have stayed awake thinking about this for a long time

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Accretion disc. Your word scans like a real word but seems less than palatable

The atom model we're talking about is really, really unlike an atom

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

You know it just never seems weird at the time. The words are all kinda jumbled up. Never did well in spelling

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago

Yeah. I'm good at spelling, but I still read over my errors and don't see them until after pressing send

I edit so many of my own comments right after tapping submit, I have set up a five minute delay on outgoing email for the same purpose

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 day ago

The electron shells are just a model, that's not how it really works. Look at this image for a more realistic model of how an atom works:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atomic_orbital#/media/File:Hydrogen_Density_Plots.png