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Politics : Should God be replaced?
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To: E. Charters who wrote (19030)12/25/2004 1:47:52 PM
From: TigerPaw  Read Replies (1) of 28931
 
So where does an electron get its boundless energy to keep circulating the proton?

Rutherford's model of electrons in orbit around a nucleus is a simplification. The electron is really kind of a field around the other quarks and in it's own way it is not moving (unless it is changing shells or jumping to another nucleus). Since work is force over distance, there is no work when the distance doesn't change (same as a refrigerator magnet which performs no work to remain stuck to the door).

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