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From: rogerb@tekmdp.UUCP (Roger C. Bonzer)
Newsgroups: net.physics
Subject: opposites attract
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Date: Mon, 11-Jul-83 19:45:02 EDT
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Posted: Mon Jul 11 19:45:02 1983
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     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