{"id":736091,"date":"2022-09-26T14:01:02","date_gmt":"2022-09-26T18:01:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=736091"},"modified":"2022-09-26T14:01:02","modified_gmt":"2022-09-26T18:01:02","slug":"fermis-ground-breaking-figure-how-the-radial-wave-function-transformed-physics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=736091","title":{"rendered":"Fermi&#039;s ground-breaking figure: How the radial wave function transformed physics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One way to better understand an atom is to shoot a particle at it and infer the atom&#8217;s properties based on how the particle bounces off it. In the mid-1930s, the physicist Enrico Fermi showed that one measurable number\u2014the scattering length\u2014illuminated everything that could be known about an electron scattering off an atom, or a neutron scattering off a nucleus.&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n Click here for original story, <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2022-09-fermi-ground-breaking-figure-radial-function.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Fermi&#8217;s ground-breaking figure: How the radial wave function transformed physics<\/a>&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\nSource: Phys.org&#013;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One way to better understand an atom is to shoot a particle at it and infer the atom&#8217;s properties based on how the particle bounces off it. In the mid-1930s,&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":615444,"comment_status":"false","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-736091","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-phys-org"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/736091","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=736091"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/736091\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/615444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=736091"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=736091"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=736091"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}