• Chrobin@discuss.tchncs.de
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    2 months ago

    They weren’t talking about radioactive decay, electrons are stable. They were talking about electrically charged particles emitting electromagnetic radiation when accelerated. (Circular movement is accelerated, see centripetal force) Since they use energy for this, they would very quickly fall into the nucleus (if I remember correctly, in around 10^-14 s).

    Bodies with mass also emit gravitational waves when accelerated, but much less.