Re: Surviving Einstein.

From: Paul J Gans (gans_at_panix.com)
Date: 07/30/03 

Date: Wed, 30 Jul 2003 03:15:45 +0000 (UTC)

John E. Hadstate <nospam@null.nil> wrote:

>"Stonelock" <crypto_stonelock@hotmail.com> wrote in message
>news:64f2b1e9.0307260826.60c85a6e@posting.google.com...
>>
>> But of course, since the orbiting model wasn't pushed as much as it
>> should have been, then you are in no position to claim that it could
>> not have been a working one.
>>

>The orbiting-electron model (also known as the Bohr model) was thoroughly
>discredited before I entered high school! It is well known and repeatably
>demonstrable that accellerated particles radiate. A particle in orbit is
>under constant accelleration. The electron's interaction with a nucleus is
>best explained as a 3-d standing wave wrapped around the nucleus. Get over
>it.

I'll go one step further. All attempts to extend that
model to atoms with more than one electron failed
spectacularly.

   ---- Paul J. Gans