Why do electron shells have set limits? (1999)
There&#x27;s a series I&#x27;ve enjoyed recently: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=zKbZeUvPnWI&amp;list=PLpH1IDQEoE8Q8842yVe-V8m7PN-R9rlwi" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=zKbZeUvPnWI&amp;list=PLpH1IDQEoE...</a><p>&quot;How Small is it&quot; by David Butler. Offers a nice summary of electrons and goes deeper into the Higgs field.<p>My two cents - after watching it - is it could all (i.e., wave&#x2F;particle duality of electrons) be explained a lot more clearly if we just accept there is another dimension in space that electrons move into and out of, which we&#x27;ve not yet figured out how to observe.<p>Would explain dark matter &#x2F; dark energy a lot too. The model seems so incredibly simple to me that I just don&#x27;t get why more people haven&#x27;t tried to build on it (am so busy with other stuff I doubt I&#x27;ll have the time to figure out unexplained Cosmological or other phenomena that could be better explained by this model).<p>But it seems really straightforward this way. Electrons are small enough, independent enough to move out of and back into another magnitude of space that we can&#x27;t measure. To us in 3-space it looks like they leave and come back (the idea of a particle being a &quot;wave with itself&quot; is less clear if you ask me). Everything is particles, it&#x27;s just some particles have axis of motion in space that we don&#x27;t know how to perceive yet.<p>One can think about it by analogy. Suppose we all lived in 2 space. If particles in 2 space where small enough to detach from our plane and pop up and down above and below the plane they would seem to appear and disappear.<p>It&#x27;s the same thing with 3 -&gt; 4 space. At some point people will realize that thinking about space as 3 space only is like thinking that the world is the center of the solar system. Our three dimensions are simply the closest &#x2F; most defined &#x2F; perceived ones to us. They&#x27;re not even the &quot;central&quot; ones. They&#x27;re the closest one&#x27;s to our perception &#x2F; how we&#x27;ve evolved.<p>If you get into the smaller spaces of things, there&#x27;s less binding energy that constrains matter and more flexibility in moving between other dimensions. Likely there&#x27;s a major 4th dimension that matter moves through &#x2F; oscillates if you prefer since it&#x27;s smaller particles that move the most (though cosmologically we see the effects in the large). And likely once you get deep in the 4th, there&#x27;s a fifth, etc.<p>Again the analogy from &quot;Flatland&quot; &#x2F; 2d space is you don&#x27;t realize the freedom to move into 3 space until you separate yourself from the structure of what Flatland is made of at the sort of macro level. For us in 3 space the macro level is atoms. As you dive deeper inside, you&#x27;re not bound by these constraints.<p>Gravity, everything can be modeled as particle forces if you just realize there&#x27;s dimensions we don&#x27;t perceive at the macro level yet (but which can be perceived indirectly by their effects on our 3 space - just as in time you can figure out what something moving in and out of a plane is sort of doing in 3 space).