Talk:Orbital motion (quantum)

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Hooray for articles like this one. So many of these mathematical/physics/technical articles are written by people for whom the jargon associated with these topics is natural and therefore they don't bother supplying the explanations that 'laymen' require to make sense of them. If wikipedia is to be a truly democratic source of knowledge then barriers to information exchange such as this need to be considered.

[edit] This is wrong!

The orbitals with nonzero orbital angular momentum really do have something moving, and current flowing in a loop. There is a nonzero probability current density moving in the orbital, which carries momentum and is a genuine electrical current. HEL 02:32, 3 February 2007 (UTC)

Everything in the Universe is in constant motion -- its natural state of being, actually. So I sure hope what you really mean here is that these phenomena simply don't move in the classical sense we've come to expect from our macroscopic experience. Yet they do move.
Pazouzou 02:13, 4 August 2007 (UTC)