Subject: Why don't atoms collapse?
Date: Fri Jan 29 17:03:40 1999
Posted by Josh Scully
Grade level: teacher/prof
School: Greenhills
City: Ann Arbor State/Province: MI
Country: USA
Area of science: Chemistry
ID: 917651020.Ch
Message:
A hydrogen atom as one electron and one proton, why doesn't
collapse since they are "pulling" on each other. I know that it
isn't because the electron "orbits" around the proton as in
classical physics. I have also heard that electrons behave more
like waves nearer they are to the nucleus, does this relate to
why atom doesn't collapse? I hope you will be fairly explicit or
lead me to some good material on this.
Re: Why don't atoms collapse?
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