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- From: bweiner@ruhets.rutgers.edu (Benjamin Weiner)
- Newsgroups: sci.physics
- Subject: Re: ATOMS & ELECTRONS
- Message-ID: <Jan.24.23.44.35.1993.27987@ruhets.rutgers.edu>
- Date: 25 Jan 93 04:44:35 GMT
- References: <16302@hq.hq.af.mil> <1993Jan19.203435.9707@sfu.ca> <1jipr8INN9vo@elroy.jpl.nasa.gov> <1993Jan23.220138.15459@lynx.dac.northeastern.edu> <24JAN199310104129@csa1.lbl.gov>
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- sichase@csa1.lbl.gov (SCOTT I CHASE) writes:
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- > mkagalen@lynx.dac.northeastern.edu (michael kagalenko) writes...
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- >>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 ...
-
- Scott, I think you're misinterpreting him. If one assumes that the
- electron in the ground state doesn't radiate for some mystical reason,
- then you can pretend that it's on a "Bohr atom" circular orbit, and the
- reason it doesn't crash into the nucleus is the same reason that the
- Earth doesn't crash into the Sun: conservation of angular momentum
- (or energy or whatever). If the electric coupling constant was as
- small as the gravitational coupling constant the radiation would be
- negligible and we wouldn't worry about it (why I am even suggesting this?
- It's silly.) I don't think Michael Kagalenko's comment was particularly
- useful as pedagogy, though.
-