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Subject: What would happen if the electrons around an atom were to stop moving?

Date: Fri Nov 24 13:09:46 2000
Posted by Shane
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I'm also curious about free electrons. Could they ever really stop moving?

I have already looked around in your search engines, and I've looked again, and
I STILL find nothing that begins to answer this question. Let me phrase this
another way.
Two thoughts about this physics question. 1) Can an electron stop moving (and
if so, is it really still an electron? and what happens is an atom reaches
absolute zero? do the electrons stop moving, or just the atom's nucleus?) 2)
If those electrons stopped spinning, would they fall into the nucleus? If so,
do the protrons turn into neutrons?



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Re: What would happen if the electrons around an atom were to stop moving?
I'm also curious about free electrons. Could they ever really stop moving?


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