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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? _______________________________________________________________ Greetings - Your question was not submitted to the MAD Scientist Network for the following reason: A question similar to yours has been answered on our site. Please try our search engine to locate files: http://www.madsci.org/MS_search.html Please read through the previous answers that are obtained by searching on
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