On Jan 1, 11:30 pm, Agent Smith agent-sm...@two-blocks-on-your-
left.com wrote:
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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.

You have to solve the Schroedinger equation in the 1/r potential to see
the answer. It's because the electron's de Broglie wavelength is much
much greater than the proton's de Broglie wavelength, so the two don't
'touch.' It's one of those things where the probabilistic nature of QM
makes our classical intuition unreliable, and applying the logic of
'billiard ball' particles gives the wrong answer. If you can't solve
differential equations, you can't understand.


That is so much hooey bull****.

If you can't explain it to a 10 year-old, you
don't know it.

If you don't have a conceptual model, you are
in Quite Mad land.

Here, I'll answer- a virtual particle is
a negative charge perfectly lying in the same place with and
cancelling a positive charge. When this virtual particle
encounters a rapidly-spinning part of space, it gives
both the negative and positive charge the same spin.
Since spinning charges create magnetic fields, and
two different charges spinning the same way create
opposite fields, the charges separate and
are held at a distance by their opposite magnetism.
But their electrical attraction still holds them together at that
distance.

John

John