Where Do Electrons Get Their Everlasting Energy?

We are all aware that moving requires the expenditure of energy. For example, if you want to start a car, you need to use gasoline.

It is common knowledge that energy cannot be created, as the first law of thermodynamics and the concept of perpetual motion show.

How, then, do electrons revolve around the nucleus all the time? Where do they get their energy from?

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[anywallsocket]

“Definitely not an orbit”
*perpetually depicts orbit models*

[pelasgeuspelasgeus]

Funny thing about quantum mechanics is that it's similar to abstract art paintings. Everyone pretends to understand it...

[ancientheart]

Electron walks into a bar and starts critisizing everything: the bar is filthy....the beer is flat...the waitress is ugly.
Bartender says: Why are you so negative?

[ColdWarVet]

I think we know far, far more about outer space than we ever will understand about "inner space".

[wahiawamang]

Amazing that a few people figured this out over a hundred years ago. The rest of us today are left scratching our heads at an algebra problem.

[SafetyBriefer]

This video doesn’t answer the question it asks.

[halfblood]

I would have loved if they teached us the theory in this detail in our schools rather than just giving us formulas and doing random calculations for exams

[sdnlawrence]

Very nice video and review. Reminded me of why I like physics & chemistry, had flashbacks to learning about orbitals & electron shells over 50 years ago. Should've mentioned electron state jumping from shell to shell though. And you really didn't explain where the energy comes from, which was the title that drew my attention.

[Boccaccio-iifl]

Thank you for explaining from where do electrons get their everlasting energy. Based on the sofisticated explanation seems like actually nobody knows from where !

[dieselscience]

IF you can answer the title question correctly, you can go collect your Nobel prize.

You did not answer your own question, where do electrons get their everlasting energy. Supposedly all elementary particles get their mass from the Higgs field, maybe it provides energy also? Just asking!

[itsamemario]

Electrons get their energy from drinking RedBull, it gives them wings.

[rd]

Nobody knows from where electrons get their energy. But the particle physicists definitely are clueless 😂😂😂

[sdutta]

It appears that the thing that has saved Quantum Mechanics is its incredible prediction accuracy, which has been used in practical engineering. Its inability to “make sense” has been long forgiven and forgotten, except by die hard academics still searching for “meaning”.

[johnwhitworth]

If she said how the energy doesn't deplete I completely missed it

[plinkfuture]

If only this video existed when I went to school - so good

[ltczyvo]

I always wondered about that. Kept me up nights, it did.

[gautearefjord]

Everything has a vabration as long the temperature is over absolute zero... It might take up energy from the surroundings

[davidfranklin]

Did not provide the answer for "WHERE..." electrons get their perpetual energy.

[NeverEver]

This sounds like every energy that the electron looses in the lowest energy level is directed directly back to itself. That could happen if space is bent inwards in all directions toward it. This is in a sense expected, as without the trick of renormalisation the electrin should have infnite energy and hence create a singularity. The question is: why would such a singularity/black hole only affect the electron and nothing else around it?