Electrons are NOT tiny planets - Freaky Fzx Friday

For the last two episodes of Freaky Fzx Friday we've dealt with the fact that every kind of electromagnetic wave travels as a wave and collides as a particle.  It's a tough concept but that's why microwaves and cell phones and radar guns don't cause cancer.  They don't have enough energy when colliding as particles to ionize - knock out electrons and change DNA.

"The Big Bang Theory" - fun show for adults even if they don't understand the Fzx discussed.  Funner for a Fzx expert.  But the atom shown after every commercial break is wrong.

Here's the International Atomic Energy Agency logo

and the US Nuclear Regulatory Commision

Those symbols are wrong.  The electrons aren't planets most of the time.  They collide as particles and travel as waves just like electromagnetic "waves."

So electrons don't act as particles when traveling.  They act like waves.  Electrons ARE waves.  They only collide as the particles we think they always are.

That's a tiny peak into wave particle duality and quantum physics.  Freaky.