by newolder wrote:DavidMcC wrote:Typeo, I hope you are not distracted by the unseemly row I've just had with newolder about UV catastrophies. What matters is the fact that electrons are not suddenly behaving classically when they interact with an atomic nucleus.
To clarify, there was no “unseemly row”. Rather, “alternative facts” were demolished with evidence.
That's isn't the way I see it, newolder,but my evidence was pre-internet, so I am at a disadvantage. However, that whole debate was off-topic, because the OP was about whether particles become classical when they have collided. As the formation of an atom is a kind of inelastic colllision, I argued that as atoms are not classical, the contention was false. Period.
