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- From: sichase@csa1.lbl.gov (SCOTT I CHASE)
- Newsgroups: sci.physics
- Subject: Re: ATOMS & ELECTRONS
- Date: 24 Jan 1993 10:10 PST
- Organization: Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory - Berkeley, CA, USA
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- References: <16302@hq.hq.af.mil> <1993Jan19.203435.9707@sfu.ca> <1jipr8INN9vo@elroy.jpl.nasa.gov> <1993Jan23.220138.15459@lynx.dac.northeastern.edu>
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- In article <1993Jan23.220138.15459@lynx.dac.northeastern.edu>, mkagalen@lynx.dac.northeastern.edu (michael kagalenko) writes...
- >
- >Why Earth is not crushing into the Sun ? Your answer really applys to
- >the question "Why electron in the ground state doesn't radiate"
-
- Completely untrue. The Earth probably has a net charge (does anyone have
- any idea what it is?), as so *does* radiate EM radiation due to it's
- acceleration in it's orbit around the Sun. However, the rate is probably
- completely negligible compared to other dissipative effects due to tidal
- stresses, etc.
-
- -Scott
- --------------------
- Scott I. Chase "It is not a simple life to be a single cell,
- SICHASE@CSA2.LBL.GOV although I have no right to say so, having
- been a single cell so long ago myself that I
- have no memory at all of that stage of my
- life." - Lewis Thomas
-