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If the electrons in an atom are negatively charged, and the nucleus is positively charged, what keeps them from coming together? I know that the old model of an atom as a tiny solar system is long obsolete, but still, there is supposed to be some discrete space between the electron structure (whatever it may conceived to be) and the nucleus. How come they don't collapse together attracting each another?