[catnipman]

“No weird behavior such as electron orbital shells, quantum shifts in orbitals, probabilistic nature of particles, heisenberg, etc.”

they’re not looking INSIDE of the atom and its subatomic structure; their resolution isn’t fine enough to do that ... they’ve just barely managed to see an atom as a blob, which of course is still a VERY impressive feat, considering that just a little over 100 years ago most physicists didn’t believe in the existence of atoms or molecules ...

[dhs12345]

They need another 100x magnification. It is interesting the boundary formed by the electron shells. There is a void of “no matter” and then matter. Anyway, it looks like Bohrs model.

[dhs12345]

Interesting too that it takes a finite amount of time for the reaction to happen. There is a time component to the reaction and even an intermediate state. I would be curious to see what happens during the tweener state when the molecule is randomly chaotic and in a different energy state and then finally settles in on the final configuration. This is something that is rarely discussed in Chemistry and the simple algebraic equations only show before and after. Also, is the molecule vulnerable in this transitional state? And does it follow schrodinger model for final state.