Short explanations, Chapter IV

Chiral crowding and the ion

RSI explains shell filling, electron shielding, and the pull of positive ions through the wakes and pressure gradients of electron-knots.

In RSI, each electron-knot that settles into an inner Acoustic Valley generates its own left-handed vortical wake. These wakes displace the surrounding fluid. Later electrons are pushed outward to ride in wider, higher-energy valleys. RSI calls this Chiral Crowding and presents it as a first-principles derivation of the Aufbau Principle (the order in which electron shells fill) and of Electron Shielding (inner electrons reducing the nucleus's hold on outer ones).

The same mechanics explain the ion. An atom short of electrons, a positive ion, keeps its structure. Yet one of its right-handed proton wakes is left uncanceled, and that wake acts as an active hydrodynamic vacuum.

Standard chemistry describes the tendency of an atom to attract electrons as electronegativity. RSI interprets it as the literal hunger of this local pressure gradient. The gradient tears an electron from a neighboring structure to silence its acoustic dissonance.

From the paper: Chapter IV, Chiral Crowding and the Mechanics of the Ion. Read the full section

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