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- From: mkagalen@lynx.dac.northeastern.edu (michael kagalenko)
- Newsgroups: sci.physics
- Subject: Re: ATOMS & ELECTRONS
- Message-ID: <1993Jan24.214444.18351@lynx.dac.northeastern.edu>
- Date: 24 Jan 93 21:44:44 GMT
- References: <1jipr8INN9vo@elroy.jpl.nasa.gov> <1993Jan23.220138.15459@lynx.dac.northeastern.edu> <24JAN199310104129@csa1.lbl.gov>
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- In article <24JAN199310104129@csa1.lbl.gov> sichase@csa1.lbl.gov (SCOTT I CHASE) writes:
- >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
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- I agree, but it's not the point.
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