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a quick question, did a quick search and did not find much, but why is the model for a hydrogen atom's electron "probability cloud" at different energy states, the same a the profile for a Gaussian mode profile for a laser? Just something that's been bugging me for a bit, I figure this would be the right place to learn why. in case I made it confusing, sorry, but the shapes on the proposed models of an electron cloud in a atom, make the same shapes as the beam profiles. for eg. hydrogen atom with an orbital of 2,0,0 is the same as tem10, 3,0,0=tem20, 4,0,0=tem 30 not all of the shapes can line up but their is a pattern, And not knowing to much about the math of a wave function, is not helping me To make it any weirder, if I take a glass full of water and tap the surface its sitting on, I get the same wave patterns that have more modes or less modes depending on the force applied.
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