Why electrons does not fall into nucleus
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A weird thing about quantum physics is that the more energy a thing has the smaller it becomes (the wavelength gets smaller).
An electron is thousands of time less massive than a proton and as such has less energy and larger wavelength. Which means it just doesn’t “fit” into the nucleus even though it does actually go there.
You can add a lot of energy to an electron and try to make it smaller. Unfortunately, energy required for an electron to leave the atom is lower than that, so that just won’t work.
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