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- Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 11:18:20 -0500
- From: Paul Karol <pk03+@andrew.cmu.edu>
- Subject: Re: ATOMS & ELECTRONS
- In-Reply-To: <Jan.24.23.44.35.1993.27987@ruhets.rutgers.edu>
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- Excerpts from netnews.sci.physics: 25-Jan-93 Re: ATOMS & ELECTRONS by
- Benjamin Weiner@ruhets.r
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- >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).
-
- There's a difference. The electron makes approximately 10^15 'orbits'
- per second in the Bohr model whereas the total number of orbits the
- earth has made is (arguably) 4 X 10^9. Any slight cumulative effect on
- the electron (still ignoring radiation due to acceleration) would be
- much more easily observed. Anyway, what's the point of all this? I've
- lost sight of the motivation for this fantasy.
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- Paul J. Karol
- Nuclear Chemist
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