Hi guys! How are you? Need little help here.

If electrons are negatively charged and protons are positively charged, then why dont electrons stick to the nucleus?

Thanks a lot ;j

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Hi guys! How are you? Need little help here. 

If electrons are negatively charged and protons are positively charged, then why dont electrons stick to the nucleus?

Thanks a lot ;j

anonymous · Answer

http://www.physicsforums.com/showthread.php?t=458030 check this out

anonymous · Answer

Their velocity is so high that they keep a distance by the same inverse square law type of concept that our moon takes around the Earth and the Earth around the Sun!

anonymous · Answer

I guess, checking out the link, it has something to do also with the Heisenberg's Uncertainty Principle but I didn't read that far into it..