What Keeps Electrons Away from the Nucleus of an Atom?

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Anyone heard from Alex K recently?

No but I imagine the new born is pretty engaging and I used to teach so I know how engaging that is too.  He might just be very otherwise engaged.  Hope he ends up with some holes in his calendar soon.

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Are you saying electrons are black? That gives a whole new meaning to the term chromodynamics.

Speaking of black, I'm just finishing CHimananda Ngozi Adichie's "Americanah".  Very interesting to look at the world from the eyes of someone from Nigeria who is blind to 'being black' until she comes here.  That whole culture straddling perspective really sheds a lot of light on both.  I got an education on kinky hair and a new appreciation for braiding.  God, relaxers sound horrible. 

Alex has a new born?! Zippadee doodah zippadee ay my oh my what a wonderful day. Can't ask him to take time away from that, so I'm glad you guys are here.

I'll check the book out, though I didn't mean to take the thread so far off topic.

Now, as you guys wee saying:

Iggy sees this as Einstein's big universal wham bam thank you ma'am.

Brian, thanks for the straightforward explanation. I understand that gravity isn't involved in the quantum realm. Here we have the weak force. Are you saying the weak force keeps electrons close but isn't strong enough to completely overpower them when they're excited?