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Even though Bohr's model is defunct, one important element of it survived, namely the strictly quantized orbiting radii of electrons. Supposedly this mended the gaping flaw of Rutherford's model in that it predicted that electrons would no longer lose energy to photon emission thereby causing them to spiral in their nucleus and all that well-known stuff. My question is how? How does limiting the possible orbits of an electron to specified energy levels in any way prevent energy loss from leading to the downfall of everything?