Scientists discover electrons don’t behave the way they had been thinking
A pretty major dogma was just recently “debunked” by some scientists though I don’t think they’ve concluded exactly what their findings mean. The dogma is one that many a physical science or chemistry student has been taught to repeat without question: only the outer electrons in an atom interact with other atoms.
Well scientists have now discovered that lithium’s inner electrons also interact with other atoms’ electrons but they think the scope is very limited to certain pressures and temperatures. I highly disagree with the scope but their findings are already suggesting that my theories are spot on even if they don’t realize it yet.
Update:
I need to explain what these findings mean on a couple of fronts. First, they will openly admit that they don’t know where an electron goes when it jumps to another atom; I mean they don’t witness the electron doing anything except disappearing from atom A and reappearing in atom B so they have to use a computer to simulate it.
Secondly, their computer simulation is claiming the electrons could behave differently under the right conditions but unless they are privy to information I’m not aware of, they actually can’t prove that electrons don’t behave this way normally.