On Mon, Sep 3, 2012 at 10:28 PM, Giovanni Santostasi <gsantost...@gmail.com> wrote:
> A classical electron should emit a lot of radiation orbiting a so high > velocity around the nucleus of an atom and should collapse into the nucleus > in a very short time. > This doesn't happen and it puzzled the scientists of the early 20th century. > Eventually quantization of the electron orbits was used as a way to solve > the problem, but it is a unsatisfactory solution because basically it makes > an axiom what is not explained (that certain orbits are allowed around he > atom and they are stable per se). > > I never heard a very good explanation of why this should be true, even > thinking about the electron as a distributed charge over the entire orbit is > not really a very good explanation. > It is an unresolved problem in modern physics. Here is one explanation: http://www.earthtech.org/publications/PRDv35_3266.pdf T
