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Why Aren't Electrons Pulled Into the Nucleus?

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Any bets on how many here can name the points where for an ellipitcal orbit the force is at a right angle to both the orbit and the motion of the orbiting body?
The perihelion?

I thought it might be the Lagrange points, but that's something else entirely ^_^.
 
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I'd like to point out that my earlier use of the word "child" was just kind of random, and not a jab at Wiccan_Child. Sorry.
That's all.
I thought you were talking to Agonaces of Susa anyway... ^_^
 
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