What keeps electrons spinning around their nucleus?
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From: Bilge on 28 Mar 2005 12:45 TomGee: >PD, > > didja ever learn anything in school? > >3rd grade Physics: Centrifugal force. Once you advance to the 4th grade, centrifugal force will be exposed as the convenient fiction that it is. >Don't ask me to explain that to you. Go to class and ask your teacher. I'm afraid we'd have to ask your teacher, but then the answer would be that you'll have to wait till 4th grade before being exposed to more advanced concepts.
From: TomGee on 28 Mar 2005 13:06 Wormy, Bilge, PD, and all you other lemmings, you cannot understand that it is the _measurement_ of the force which is fictional and not the feeling of being pulled out as a carousel spins. You cannot make the force disappear just by invalidating your own measurements. You should not think that websites are the ultimate authority on anything, either, as subjective opinion runs rampart all through it. You will learn that, Bilgy, when if ever you get to the fifth grade. TomGee
From: TomGee on 28 Mar 2005 13:11 David, No one said em interaction _causes_ the electron to move around the nucleus. The question was "What binds the electron to the atom"? TomGee
From: TomGee on 28 Mar 2005 13:14 No, Nick, I said no such thing. I responded to your question about what binds the electron to the nucleus, not what makes it move. TomGee
From: PD on 28 Mar 2005 13:43
TomGee wrote: > Wormy, Bilge, PD, and all you other lemmings, > > you cannot understand that it is the _measurement_ of the force which > is fictional and not the feeling of being pulled out as a carousel > spins. Nope. You feel the force pulling you *in*, which is a force you are unaccustomed to, and so you mistakenly associate that with a force pulling you out. Your naive interpretations are what's tripping you up. Let me ask you another question. As an elevator suddenly starts to descend, you feel lighter. Are you in fact lighter? Why should Earth's gravity pull on you less just because the floor of the elevator started to go down? Let me ask you another question. You are on a road making a circular bend left in your car. What force acting on the car enables you to change your straight-line motion? You hit an icy patch in the middle of the turn. What happens to your car? Does it go *straight* or does it go *outward*? What force has disappeared when you hit the icy patch? > You cannot make the force disappear just by invalidating your > own measurements. You should not think that websites are the ultimate > authority on anything, either, as subjective opinion runs rampart all > through it. Which is why I reference textbooks, Tom. Which you refuse to read. > You will learn that, Bilgy, when if ever you get to the > fifth grade. > You call us lemmings, Tom, but we're pointing out things that really are basic, classical physics. If you want to uproot that, then advertise that what you're doing is uprooting not only special relativity, but also Newtonian physics, classical kinematics, and just about everything else too. But if you don't want to claim that, then learn a little physics so you know where the dividing line is. PD |