Hey, DaveGTD.
Yeah, I was keeping it simple, because this is a music site.
For those interested;
A photon's being absorbed and imparting it's energy to something is commonly seen in photovoltaic cells.
Electricity is, basically, electon's jumping from atom to atom. Like, through a wire, for example.
The electron 'shells' in an atom which were referred to, actually belong to a much older theory, which was subsequently proven wrong. It might've been Neils Bohr w/ the original theory, maybe?
Sorry, didn't mean to Bohr you folks . . .
There are several energy levels. An atom with 2 electrons has one shell, describing a sphere. Add an electon & it has to go to the next level (or 'shell'). Keep adding electons, and when the 'shell' is filled - subsequent electons jump to the next, and the next, and the next.
originally, each of these energy levels, or shells, were thought to be spheres.
But here's the point - several of these 'spheres' are actually 'figure-eights.' That adds a little more dimension to your reference to band members and managers, and the like . . .
A plasma is the next state of matter after a gas. Heat up atoms enough, and the constituent particles diassociate, the atom loses it's cohereance, and the atom loses it's shape. I'd never refer to a nucleus as a plasma . . .
But . . .
Who cares?
No big deal, one way or the other. I don't need to crack my notebook to talk about up, down, sideways, truth, beauty and charm. Quarks. And, I don't care enough, to double-check before referring to mesons, pi-mesons, leptons, tachyons & the such. (Yeah-yeah, I know Tachyons & time . . .)
But, again - who cares?
If I were to talk about this stuff on a music site - that'd just be Tachy . . .
I agree with the members being like standing waves. Cool analogy.
But, if they play sitting down, are they still standing waves?
(sorry bout that; couldn't resist)
Let's call a truce w/ the nuclear physics, ok? We'll just bore everyone.
Hmmm - would that make it a nuclear armistice?
Back to music . . .
Be well