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Listener Questions 17: hamsters, black holes and higgs fields!

Daniel and Kelly’s Extraordinary Universe

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Why Doesn't the Electron Essentially Collapse Into the Nucleus?

The classical view of the atom is that electrons are moving in a circle, which means your rating and decelerating. But quantum objects don't have a path or well defined location as a function of time. So why doesn't the electron essentially collapse into the nucleus instantaneously? All right? The reason is that they are not really little classical objects. They are fundamentally very, very different and strange objects. We just don't know exactly what it is. Is not like a tiny little object that really is moving along some path in space and time. It's quantum object is fundamentally very different,. Right?

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