Modeling Hydrogen's Spectral Lines-[Physics Essays 22,195 (2009)]

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Above is a link to the article entitled Modeling hydrogen spectral lines published in June 2009 in Physics Essays a publishing of AIP. This article presents an alternative theory to the Bohr model and the quantum mechanics model of the hydrogen atom theorizing that the secondary electron of the hydride ion arranged in a dipole configuration is the entity reponsible for hydrogen's spectral lines and not the bound electron of the hydrogen atom as most eloquently questioned by Schrodinger.

Once we have become aware of this state of affairs, the epistemological question: "Do the electrons really exist in these orbits within the atom?" is to be answered with a decisive No, unless we prefer to say that the putting of the question itself has absolutely no meaning. __Erin Schrodinger.

In the case of the hydrogen atom, the electron is either bound or unbound with no intermediate excited energy states. To solve Schrodinger's equation a complex wave function is necessary because Schrodinger attempted to describe hydrogen's spectral lines in a field in which they do not exist, that is the point charge field. The nonradiating energy states observed are produced from the secondary electron in a dipole field of the hydride ion and unlike the current theories predicts that the angular momentun of the excited electron is constant and equal to h-bar, classically explains electron spin, and asserts that the intrinsic angular momentum or electron spin for an electron at rest (n = infinity) is also h-bar. Thus, there is no need to arbitrarily introduce a 4th quantum number.

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