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alok-g on April 28, 2025 | parent | context | favorite | on: Why do electrons not fall into the nucleus?

This explanation is not correct. Here, the electron is again accelerating, will lose energy, and ultimately spiral into the nucleus. This does not require it to be pointing exactly into the nucleus.

mr_mitm on April 28, 2025 [–]

Oh, I thought you were asking something else. In a spiral motion, the infinities never come into play. Nevermind.

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