Developments in physics in the past two decades have expanded the well-known mass-energy equation into a rigorous set of relations that provide the electric and magnetic finestructure and the volumetric structure of the electron as a closed-flux torus, all in agreement with 2018 Codata values. In light of these developments, the present communication questions the physical meaning of the Bohr radius and its implications -the Bohr-Heisenberg theory of the hydrogen atom and its description of an electron as a point-mass particle that only exists when its probability wave collapses.
Developments in physics in the past two decades have expanded the well-known mass-energy equation into a rigorous set of relations that provide the electric and magnetic fine-structure and the volumetric structure of the electron as a closed-flux torus, all in agreement with 2018 Codata values. In light of these developments, the present communication questions the physical meaning of the Bohr radius and its implications – the Bohr-Heisenberg theory of the hydrogen atom and its description of an electron as a point-mass particle that only exists when its probability wave collapses.