On Jan 1, 9:04*pm, Randy Poe wrote:
On Jan 1, 8:18 pm, BURT wrote:

What is repulsing protons and electrons?

They behave as if they are the same charge.

They attract, which is why an electron is BOUND to
an atom and why it takes energy to free it.

* * * * * * * *- Randy

Maybe it's not attraction.

Perhaps unlike charges repel each other just half as much
as much as like charges repel each other.

For more on the topic, see:
Emission-Absorption-Scattering Sub-quantum Electrodynamics.
http://www.datasync.com/~rsf1/eas.htm

Bob fritzius