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What do you mean when you say there is no trajectory in the ground state?
The 1s orbital does not have a zero diameter, nor is the electron frozen
in place.
The other way this is said: Bound electrons are constantly emitting and
reabsorbing photons at a particular energy of their motion.
On Jun 11, 2013, at 10:42 AM, Bruce Sherwood <Bruce_Sherwood@ncsu.edu>
wrote:
Dunno whether this is relevant, but: Classically radiation is associated
with acceleration, which implies a trajectory with a changing velocity, but
there's no trajectory in the ground state of a hydrogen atom.