"***First of all, the present model of the atom is still a schematic.  It is merely a 3-D schematic.  As far as the nucleus also having quantum effects, this model is portraying a fanciful nucleus at rest and the electron relative to a motionless nucleus.  Yes, I know that that is not reality, but it is incidentally how physicists at the beginning of the 20th century had to begin their calculations in order to produce any theories of the atom at all. Secondly, I think you are arguing with the wrong person.  I didn't invent this model of the atom.  See Stephen Hawking ""The Illustrated Brief History of Time"".  The pictures on page 79 describe the sequence of ""the evolution of the atom"" and portray models of the atom as theory has evolved.  The last picture shows a 3-D model in a spherical shape with waves on the surface of the sphere as the closest depiction of a model (or since you prefer the word: 3-D schematic) of the atom according to current theory.  Models or schematics are not easy to develop for complex systems.  How do you draw a schematic of a probability cloud without obscuring the nucleus?  How do you draw a schematic that defines the electron as essentially everywhere in its atomic orbital at the same time?  Well, obviously Stephen Hawking and other physicists thought that the best schematic for describing an atom was not to show the electron as a particle since it is hard to grasp that a particle, in and of itself, surrounds the nucleus.  Remember this is not my idea.  It is a simple model of the atom, a simple 3-D schematic, that clarifies as much as can be clarified in a model, the current view of an atom in the simplest form possible that Stephen Hawking and other physicists could come up with to teach the public in a non-technical article about what a schematic of the atom should look like.  They needed to come up with a schematic that would NOT represent a single stationary measurable electron.  This is their idea of how to solve the problem (not mine).  I believe there have been enough complaints here with the Bohr model being used as a schematic.  I believe that Stephen Hawking's 3-D schematic whether he invented himself or borrowed from other physicists presents a clearer picture for the general public.  

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