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A single particle...
all by itself...
doesn't do very much.
But if you take two particles...
a proton, and an electron...
and... you put them together...
they... their waves JOIN.
And their waves join... with certain... RULES.
Electron waves will form... PATTERNS. The violinist...
knows that there are patterns inside the violin case.
So... in the same way...
these patterns form between particles.
Helium is more complex than hydrogen.
Or you combine a hydrogen with an oxygen...
and you get very very very complex arrangements.
Of course every chemist and biologist knows these arrangements as the Atomic Table.
Any exchange...
in one of these complex... wave structures.
can only happen... if it goes to...
one wave structure... to another wave structure.
It can't go half-way between.
Because the wave structures have to be like...
waves on a string.
If you have a violin string, if you pluck it, it always has the same note.
That is, the waves on it...
are a PATTERN! - Certain frequency of the standing wave?
- Yeah, this is what they call a "standing wave".
Kids...
wave a jump-rope up and down...
and it has always a fixed pattern.
All the wave patterns of atoms and molecules are fixed patterns.
Whether energy... changes, it changes...
moving from one pattern... to another pattern.
- And only certain are allowed, and it explains why... only certain energy states are allowed. OK.