The Electron Probability Clouds For Atomic Orbitals Are Spherical In Shape. True Or False

How do electron clouds of atoms overlap?

Some Quantum Mechanics people would have you believe that electrons don’t revolve around the nucleus because they firmly believe that the electron is not a particle because it’s probabilistic and it can be in Alpha Centauri and in the nucleus at the same time until you detect it.To dispel this rubbish, consider the blades of a fan in the off position. They’re solid and you can see each blade succinctly. Switch it on and the image of each blade is spread all over the rotating radius such that you can see through them. The electron is the same. Because it’s revolving around the nucleus at huge speeds (~10% speed of light) it appears thinly spread all over the shell; yes electrons occupy distinct shells as described by the Schroedinger wave equation that produces the probabilities of the electron.The electron shells are physically separate and this is achieved by the mutual repulsion between the electrons of different shells - quantum mechanics don’t consider this as they only see probabilities. They also claim that the negative quarks don’t contribute to the potential of the shell electrons. Well, they do. There’s a school of thought that reckons that shells or even orbitals (sub-shells) are determined by the balance of forces between the negative and positive charges in the nucleus and the negative ones in the orbitals. The negative quarks are what prevents electrons from falling into the nucleus.In electron capture there are enough positive charges in the nucleus to overcome the repulsive forces to enable one electron to fall into the nucleus thereby reducing the positive charge in the nucleus thus restoring the balance. Because the shell electrons are charged particles, when they move, they generate a magnetic field which helps to enforce the Pauli Exclusion Principle. The wave equation can’t.Check out The One Force of Nature, an Ebook by David Simmons for a fuller explanation and an alternative Theory of Everything.

How accurate are depictions of atoms as a spherical nucleus orbited by smaller but also spherical electrons?

The basic description even uses the image of dimensionless point charges, and that gives very good approximations (to < 0.1%). The dimensions of the electron do not play any role at all.Describing the nucleus as a compact sphere in most cases is pretty correct. The influence of the strong force is of the order of a few femtometer, so everything has to clump together as tight as possible.But there are a few exceptions where neutrons or protons stick out of the nucleus of certain isotopes or sometimes excited isomers of stable nuclei. The part that sticks out is referred to as a “halo”. and has a very low binding strength to the rest of the nucleus. If it’s a proton, that gives the nucleus a certain dipole moment. All of these isotopes are unstable though, so we don’t know much about their chemistry.