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[โ€“] [email protected] 18 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

That's because you're thinking of it like a particle moving a distance, but matter at that scale actually behaves more like a standing wave that only has discrete solutions.

Or at least that's how I think about electrons and Schrodinger's equation. I dunno, I only teach about stuff that's as small as an electron, but it's a useful tool for thinking about quantum numbers, so I assume it applies to smaller matter, too.

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