On Mar 23, 2009, at 1:05 PM, mix...@bigpond.com wrote:
I think the electron doesn't spiral into the nucleus because it
doesn't have
enough angular momentum to create a photon, hence it can't radiate,
which means
it can't lose energy.
This argument must not be true. There is a finite probability of
finding the electron near or within the nucleus. If viewed as a point
particle and not a wave function, the acceleration can thus become
arbitrarily high, as can the kinetic energy and angular momentum,
thus guaranteeing Larmor radiation. In fact, some molecular orbitals
exist in a figure 8 configuration, where the center of the 8 is the
nucleus, thus guaranteeing constant nuclear traverses. I think
ordinary Newtonian point particle models just can't explain the lack
of radiation.
Best regards,
Horace Heffner
http://www.mtaonline.net/~hheffner/
