A Better Way To Picture Atoms

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Thanks to Google for sponsoring a portion of this video! Support MinutePhysics on Patreon: http://www.patreon.com/minutephysics This video is about using Bohmian trajectories to visualize the wavefunctions of hydrogen orbitals, rendered in 3D using custom python code in Blender. REFERENCES A Suggested Interpretation of the Quantum Theory in Terms of "Hidden" Variables. I David Bohm, Physical Review, Vol 85 No. 2, January 15, 1952 Speakable and Unspeakable in Quantum Mechanics J. S. Bell Trajectory construction of Dirac evolution Peter Holland The de Broglie-Bohm Causal Interpretation of Quantum Mechanics and its Application to some Simple Systems by Caroline Colijn Bohmian Trajectories as the Foundation of Quantum Mechanics http://arxiv.org/abs/0912.2666v1 The Pilot-Wave Perspective on Quantum Scattering and Tunneling http://arxiv.org/abs/1210.7265v2 A Quantum Potential Description of One-Dimensional Time-Dependent Scattering From Square Barriers and Square Wells Dewdney, Foundations of Physics, VoL 12, No. 1, 1982 Link to Patreon Supporters: http://www.minutephysics.com/supporters/ MinutePhysics is on twitter - @minutephysics And facebook - http://facebook.com/minutephysics Minute Physics provides an energetic and entertaining view of old and new problems in physics -- all in a minute! Created by Henry Reich