Wednesday, 21 October 2020

quantum mechanics - Why can't electrons fall into the nucleus?



I read a book on pop sci book on quantum mechanics and the author said that electrons do not fall into the nucleus due to quantum mechanics- which principles suggest this (I think it was Heisenberg's Uncertainty and Pauli's Exclusion Principle) and why?


Also, I've heard that if Bohr's planetary model were correct, then electrons would lose energy/momentum and fall in- is this true and again, which physics principles say this?




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