Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!security!genrad!decvax!tektronix!tekmdp!rogerb From: rogerb@tekmdp.UUCP (Roger C. Bonzer) Newsgroups: net.physics Subject: opposites attract Message-ID: <2075@tekmdp.UUCP> Date: Mon, 11-Jul-83 19:45:02 EDT Article-I.D.: tekmdp.2075 Posted: Mon Jul 11 19:45:02 1983 Date-Received: Tue, 12-Jul-83 14:51:02 EDT Lines: 18 I probably got this question from some book or other, but I don't recall that I ever got a satisfactory answer for it. Anyway... Protons and electrons, having opposite electrical charges, are supposed to attract one another and repel themselves [?]. If this is so, why is it that all the protons of an atom are all bunched up in the nucleus? Why is it that the electrons and protons don't just get their act together and stick tight to each other, instead of having each group staying far away from the particles it is attracted to and staying with the group that it is repelled by? (Since if all the e's and p's in the universe were to do this life as we know it would cease quite abruptly, I am not disappointed that this phenomenon does not occur, merely curious why it doesn't) Obviously not a physician, Roger Bonzer