New atom

[GuidoHunter]

Problems with his model of the atom:
1. As Maka said, they are densest in the middle
2. As Thingy said, the nucleons would clump due to the strong nuclear force, whereas the electrons would not.
3. Separating the neutrons from the protons would cause extreme instability, and the atom would collapse and decay.
4. Nothing that could fit in the center of something with orbiting nucleons could have enough mass to create enough gravity to hold the other particles in orbit
5. Where are the electrons? You can't have chemistry, electricity, or magnetism without them.
6. He underestimates the "implosions and explosions" in the way that they are usually irreparable, not repeatable. Take stars, for instance. They either implode or explode, not one or the other.
7. Regarding the orbits of the protons and neutrons in their "ovals", how can something orbit nothing?

Anyway, this is why I say his model was more intuitive as a model of the universe rather than as a model of the atom, and that the atom was more of a by-product that snuck in there.

Yeah, and even though gravity is inversely proportional to the square of the distance between two particles (which would be VERY small in the atomic case), that can't overcome the very small gravitational constant and the mass of both particles, so gravity is, in fact, negligible in this case.

--Guido

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