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an unstable neutron decays to electron, proton and anti neutrino.
if that being the case, why electrons are not inside the nucleus?
if that being the case, why electrons are not inside the nucleus?
logearav said:an unstable neutron decays to electron, proton and anti neutrino.
if that being the case, why electrons are not inside the nucleus?
The electrons are not attached because they have a high kinetic energy, and when they have no kinetic energy, this being at 0 Kelvin, yes the electrons fall to the nucleus and matter as we know it cease to exist =)physalpha said:Why electrons are not attached to proton?
Even electrons have no kinetic energy, they always have a distance?
Any force ?
JoaoPais said:this being at 0 Kelvin, yes the electrons fall to the nucleus and matter as we know it cease to exist =)
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JoaoPais said:At zero ----> electrons fall to nucleus from the lack of movement -----> nuclear reaction of electron capture – protons became neutrons
Well, here you simply don’t have an activation energy, because the particles don’t have ANY kind of energy. Hypothetically, the electron simply fall to the attraction of electromagnetic force.physalpha said:Thanks.
Is activation energy not high at that time?
Yes, that’s the problem with absolute zero. Isn’t possible, once the total lack of energy makes the quantum wave of every particle infinite. At very low temperatures, the quantum wave of particles start’s to grow, and the quantum effects become macroscopic. The atoms start to have wave functions bigger than themselves and stop existing as individual atoms, but form a new state of matter which is called the Bose-Einstein condensate. Beyond that, speculation.physalpha said:Matter 0 K.
Does the temperature influence basic particle wave - quark wave or electron wave?
This is false (and the entire discussion following it is meaningless). Bound atomic electrons do not lose orbital kinetic energy as the temperature drops.JoaoPais said:The electrons are not attached because they have a high kinetic energy, and when they have no kinetic energy, this being at 0 Kelvin, yes the electrons fall to the nucleus and matter as we know it cease to exist =)
My quoted statement don't say this. It says that, in 0 Kelvin, electrons fall to the nucleus, and yes, I’m aware that sentence is simply wrong, being a “classical” view of a non-classical event. The present discussion was mostly hypothetical, as I say so many times.Gokul43201 said:Bound atomic electrons do not lose orbital kinetic energy as the temperature drops.
JoaoPais said:in 0 Kelvin, electrons fall to the nucleus
Electrons are located in specific regions or shells surrounding the nucleus of an atom.
Electrons stay in orbit around the nucleus due to the balance between their negative charge and the positive charge of the protons in the nucleus.
Electrons do not fall into the nucleus because they have a specific amount of energy and angular momentum that keeps them in their respective orbits.
Electrons can move between energy levels by either absorbing or emitting energy in the form of photons.
The role of electrons outside the nucleus in chemical reactions is to interact with other atoms and form chemical bonds, which ultimately determine the properties and behavior of a substance.