why the proton not attracts the electron
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The electrons should zoom right to the atomic nucleus. In classical physics, electronsshould fall into the nucleus even if they weren't attracted by the charge of the proton. Early models of atoms had electrons orbiting the nucleus the way a planet orbits a sun.
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THIS IS THE QUESTION WHICH H WAS ALSO ASKED IN THE OXFORD UNIVERSITY
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THE ANSWER WHICH IS GIVEN BY THE SCIENTIST Naked Scientist Dave Ansell
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1. It's all basically to do with the fact that electrons - in fact, everything - has wave properties. And the electron's wavelengths are about a similar sort of size as an atom, and that's the reason why atoms are that sort of size over the order of the wavelength in electron.
2. And so you can't really compress a wave any smaller than one or few wavelengths. So the electron can't get any smaller than that without actually changing its properties entirely. Which means it can't actually get any closer to the proton in the centre of the nucleus than it does. So it's stuck as close as it can.
3. You can cause - if at very high pressures - electrons essentially to react with protons and turn into neutrons, and this is what happens in neutron stars. A neutron actually isn't stable just lying around in the atmosphere, or in a vacuum. It decays in about 14 minutes into an electron and proton and forms into a hydrogen atom.
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THIS IS THE QUESTION WHICH H WAS ALSO ASKED IN THE OXFORD UNIVERSITY
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THE ANSWER WHICH IS GIVEN BY THE SCIENTIST Naked Scientist Dave Ansell
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1. It's all basically to do with the fact that electrons - in fact, everything - has wave properties. And the electron's wavelengths are about a similar sort of size as an atom, and that's the reason why atoms are that sort of size over the order of the wavelength in electron.
2. And so you can't really compress a wave any smaller than one or few wavelengths. So the electron can't get any smaller than that without actually changing its properties entirely. Which means it can't actually get any closer to the proton in the centre of the nucleus than it does. So it's stuck as close as it can.
3. You can cause - if at very high pressures - electrons essentially to react with protons and turn into neutrons, and this is what happens in neutron stars. A neutron actually isn't stable just lying around in the atmosphere, or in a vacuum. It decays in about 14 minutes into an electron and proton and forms into a hydrogen atom.
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