What Keeps Electrons Away from the Nucleus of an Atom?

[Rhondazvous]

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?

Look, if you want deep answers ask the real eggheads. I only understand general concepts, not the math. I cant even remember the grade I got in my college physics class. Obviously passing because I do have a degree, but it was in arts, not science.

All I know about electrons is that they are fucking tiny and fast and can jump from orbit to orbit. Neutrinos are so damned small they can pass through a solid planet. As far as why an electron stays orbiting the nucleus. The following confused the shit out of me. 

https://chem.libretexts.org/Core/Physica...t_Collapse

But this following one gives you a layperson's description. https://education.jlab.org/qa/atomicstructure_08.html

Well at least you passed. On my high school physics exam I think I owed points.

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Electromagnetic field?! This is significant. I must go back and change some things in my novel. Some of my characters are going to groan. I'll just tell them it's a new covenant. A new dispensation. And Rhonda said let there be, and there was.