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If electrons and protons are made of opposite charges and opposite charges attract, what stops electrons from crashing into the nucleus?

>> No.14513684

What stops earth crashing in the sun?

What stops random meteorite crashing in the sun?

>> No.14513689
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14513689

>>14513654
Pauli exclusion

>> No.14513690

>>14513654
It goes against the laws of quantum mechanics. If a proton and an electron crashed, they'd have 0 potential energy, and that's impossible because all systems must have at least some energy.

>> No.14513692

>>14513689
>even or half-integer
What about odd integer?

>> No.14513694

>>14513684
>what is larmor radiation?

>> No.14513695

>>14513689
>>14513690
Thread ended here

>> No.14513704

>>14513692
same as even

>> No.14513709

>>14513692
Photons' spin is 1

>> No.14513710

>>14513694
Electron is relativistic particle and always accompanied by another electron with opposite direction

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14513714

What stops protons (and neutrons) from flying off from each other.?

>> No.14513718

>>14513714
the strong force

>> No.14513722

>>14513714
nuclear force, which is a watered down version of Strong force.
it is mediated via mesons.
That's why heavy atoms have a boatload of neutrons in them.

>> No.14513728

>>14513722
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strong_interaction#Residual_strong_force

>> No.14513731

>>14513690
>>14513722
Why does the same thing not apply to strong force? Aren't they both attraction forces?

>> No.14513733

>>14513731
strong force uses gluons
nuclear force uses mesons

>> No.14513755

>>14513731

Strong force only acts on particles with "color charge": quarks. Quarks organize themselves into Hadrons (such as baryonic hadrons like protons, neutrons etc) and are united by the strong force. When they form hadrons they become "colorless". So the strong force only acts within the hadron.

Meanwhile, the residual force is made of mesons (unstable hadrons made of a particle, antiparticle quark pair). It's something like mollecules exchanging electrons.

>> No.14513780

>>14513755

Note that mesons act like bosons (pothons, gluons, etc) instead of fermions ( electrons, protons, etc) and thus do not obey the Pauli Exclusion Principle.

>> No.14514484

>>14513654
Different spin you absolute monkey anus.

>> No.14514627

>>14513654
Electrons can crash into the nucleus, it changes the proton to a neutron and the electron to a neutrino

>> No.14514630

>>14514627
https://radiopaedia.org/articles/electron-capture#:~:text=Electron%20capture%20is%20the%20radioactive,neutrino%20(ve)%201.

>Electron capture is the radioactive decay process by which an atom's inner orbital electron is absorbed within the nucleus followed by conversion of a proton to a neutron and emission of a neutrino (ve) 1. Accompanying this decay method is the emission of Bremsstrahlung, characteristic x-ray emission, gamma rays and Auger electrons 2.

>> No.14514644

>>14514630
pics or it didn't happen

>> No.14514657 [DELETED] 

>>14514644
It's true, you can turn mercury into gold by this process. The problem is the insanely high cost of energy.