[kosta50]

You see what shallow knowledge does? Any half witted high school physics teacher could explain that electrons DO NOT “orbit” atoms at all and the tidy little picture of moon like things going around an atom is a useful way of thinking about them but is manifestly not so.

Depends how you look at the electron, as a wave or as a particle. Electormagnetic radiation behaves as both. But I wouldn't expect adults who are more like six-year olds to know that. Electrons can be "stripped" and they can "bounce" off of a desingated target in predicatble geometric fashion, just like a particle would,no different then light does, following simple deifned by Snell's law. At the same time, they will exhibit all the characteristics of a wave as evidenced by refraction effects.

But thanks for your "lesson". Just don't let it go to your head.

[count-your-change]

But no neat little moon like orbits though even if you really, really believe, er, “know”.