Bohr’s quantized model of hydrogen atom has been proven to be dynamically thus fundamentally wrong

Because Bohr’s model actually prevents photons from getting their velocity from the electron emitting them
------------------------------------------------ by Bingcheng Zhao

Core reminding (!): the very fact, which is that Bohr’s quantized model of hydrogen atom does not and cannot tell why and how photons get their velocity from the electron emitting them, will be tangibly helpful to digesting and accepting another proven fact: Bohr’s famous quantized model of hydrogen atom has been proven to be dynamically thus fundamentally wrong ---- the central topic of 2.8, Ch.2B (P. 222 ~ 226, 2.8, Ch.2B, reference #1).

Related knowledge: the newly discovered and verified law of orbiting electron periodic impulse emitting photons (OEPIEP law) reveals the mechanism of why and how photons get their velocity from the electron emitting them (P. 193 ~ 214, Ch.2A, reference #1; http://mechanism-revealedphysics-bcz4.blogspot.com/ ).


Proving that Bohr’s famous quantized model of hydrogen atom is dynamically thus fundamentally wrong (P. 222 ~ 226, 2.8, Ch.2B, reference #1). Most of all and dynamically, in Bohr’s electron dynamics, because only Coulomb force is included, the velocity of electron is forever less than the speed of light ---- electron never has any moments at which its instantaneous maximum velocity is equal to the speed of light. In other words, Bohr’s model actually prevents photons from getting their velocity from the electron emitting them. Therefore, Bohr’s famous quantized model of hydrogen atom turns out to be dynamically thus fundamentally wrong. (*Narrator: this reason alone is sufficient to prove that Bohr’s model is factually dynamically thus fundamentally wrong). Secondly, while Bohr’s model is based on the assumption that photon is emitted from electron when electron somehow “jumps” from one allowed orbit to another, his dynamics is utterly unable to prove that electron has any moment at which its instantaneous maximum velocity is equal to the speed of light during the process of electron “jumping”. In addition, three crucial clues, which clearly indicate that Bohr’s model cannot be dynamically thus fundamentally correct, have been provided and analyzed; three fatal mistakes in Bohr’s model have been analyzed and pointed out.


The key to understanding of the proven fact that Bohr’s model is dynamically thus fundamentally wrong: (1) there is no way for photons to get their velocity from the electron emitting them in Bohr’s model. (2) The so-called electromagnetic radiation in Bohr’s model does not include the action of magnetic force at all ---- the so-called electromagnetic radiation in Bohr’s model turns out to be literally a dynamically empty terminology. (3) Bohr’s so-called quantized model cannot dynamically thus mechanistically materialize the quantization of electromagnetic radiation at all. (4) If Bohr’s model were not dynamically thus fundamentally wrong, Earth would jump, jump and jump onto Sun.

Available clues can be helpful to digesting and accepting the proven fact that Bohr’s model is dynamically thus fundamentally wrong. Clue 1: in Bohr’s model, the orbiting velocity of electron is increasing immediately after it emits a photon, whereas the orbiting velocity of electron is decreasing immediately after it absorbs a photon. (Corresponding analysis: clearly and undeniably, Bohr’s model literally violates the basic knowledge of dynamics, thus being dynamically wrong). Clue 2: the most fundamental problem in front of quantum physics, why there are quantum states, has not been and cannot be solved within the paradigm of postulate-based modern physics, in which Bohr’s model is an important component. Clue 3 Bohr’s model does not and cannot reflect momentum conservation law in the process of electron emitting or absorbing photon. Clue 4: in Bohr’s model, because only Coulomb force acts on electron, the electron inevitably loses the dynamic basis of its wave-particle dual natures. In other words, if orbiting electron only experienced Coulomb force, electron would not have wave-particle dual natures at all. Clue 5: the basic knowledge of dynamics clearly tells us that any object (including electron, of course) under the action of one force with the characteristics of Coulomb force will never ever reach its maximum velocity.

The profound implication of Bohr’s model turning out to be dynamically thus fundamentally wrong: it turns out (has been proven) that Bohr’s correspondence principle, though highly influential in modern physics, cannot be correct, simply because this principle, being primarily for justifying Bohr’s model from the angle of orbital frequency, is the byproduct of Bohr’s quantized model of hydrogen atom (P. 226, Q10-and-A10, 2.8.2, Ch.2B, reference #1; P. 388 ~ 389, 3.24.2, Ch.3F, reference #1).

Seven (7) pieces of related information: (1) the newly discovered and verified law of orbiting electron periodic impulse emitting photons (OEPIEP law) (P. 193 ~ 214, Ch.2A, reference #1; http://mechanism-revealedphysics-bcz4.blogspot.com/ ). OEPIEP law reveals the mechanism of why and how photons get their velocity from the electron emitting them, and solves the fundamentally important problem of why there are quantum states. (2) Establishing electron-photon work-energy relation (equation) (P. 252 ~ 258, 3.4, Ch.3A, reference #1; http://mechanism-revealedphysics-bcz5.blogspot.com/ ). (3) Establishing electron-photon momentum relation (equation) (P. 258 ~ 271, 3.5, Ch.3A, reference #1; http://mechanism-revealedphysics-bcz6.blogspot.com/ ). (4) Establishing electron-photon wavelength relation (equation) (P. 271 ~ 273, 3.6, Ch.3A, reference #1; http://mechanism-revealedphysics-bcz7.blogspot.com/ ). (5) Establishing Mechanism-Revealed Indispensability Principle (P. 314 ~ 318, 3.13, Ch.3D, reference #1; http://mechanism-revealedphysics-bcz10.blogspot.com/ ). (6) Unifying the wave-particle dual natures of light, with the newly discovered and verified OEPIEP law (P. 218 ~ 222, 2.7, Ch.2B, reference #1; http://mechanism-revealedphysics-bcz11.blogspot.com/ ). (7) Mechanism-Revealed Physics, Bingcheng Zhao (http://mechanism-revealedphysics-bcz71.blogspot.com/ ).


Reference #1: 2009, Bingcheng Zhao, From Postulate-Based Modern Physics to Mechanism-Revealed Physics [Vol. 1(1/2)], ISBN: 978-1-4357-4913-9.
Reference #2: 2009, Bingcheng Zhao, From Postulate-Based Modern Physics to Mechanism-Revealed Physics [Vol. 2(2/2)], ISBN: 978-1-4357-5033-3.

Ph.D., Bingcheng Zhao,
The author of “From Postulate-Based Modern Physics to Mechanism-Revealed Physics”
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