Re: Protons & electrons attractions


Watclod wrote:
> Sam Wormley wrote:
> > Watclod wrote:
> > > Can anyone give the best descriptions or layman explanations
> > > why electrons don't fall into the protons.
> > >
> >
> > Probably the best reference for more information on this (though it
> is
> > pretty tough sledding) is PW Atkins' "Molecular Quantum Mechanics."
> >
> >
>
http://van.hep.uiuc.edu/van/qa/section/New_and_Exciting_Physics/Inside_the_Atom/968623363.htm
> >
>
http://www.google.com/search?q=why+electrons+don%27t+fall+into+the+nucleus
>
> Interesting site especially the first. The explanations why electrons
> don't fall into the nucleus is a bit out of the ordinary. No wonder
> there are 101 other interpretations being offered by crackpots.

Not in this thread (so far, anyway). You've been told twice that's it's
the Heisenberg Uncertainty principle. That's the reason.

> Anyway. How come when the electron cloud squashes closer to the
> nucleus, the kinetic energy goes up as described by the following:

Google Coulomb Interaction and try thinking for a change.

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