I know I've asked this before, but it keeps coming back to me, again and again:
Does a proton possess orbitals?
If you say I'm silly, then consider the thousands of Chemists worldwide who speak of the hydrogen ion (H+) as having orbitals.
Isn't a hydrogen ion a proton?
But isn't a proton a free particle by itself?
Quantum mechanics is just plain weird, period. :)
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No, a proton is the source of an electric field around it, which is spherically symmetric. The resulting spherical harmonics give rise to the orbitals.
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