Why an Electron Never Runs Out of Energy | Boring Physics To Sleep

Right now, inside every atom in your body, an electron has been moving without pause for billions of years — no fuel, no rest, no decay. Classical physics said this should be impossible: an orbiting electron should collapse into its nucleus in a fraction of a second. Tonight we trace the crisis this caused in early 20th-century physics, from Rutherford's gold foil experiment to Bohr's quantized orbits, de Broglie's matter waves, and finally Heisenberg's uncertainty principle — the real reason a confined electron can never fall to zero energy. Along the way: the Casimir effect, the Lamb shift, white dwarfs, neutron stars, and superconductivity, all echoing the same quiet law of the universe. ‎ ‎#QuantumMechanics #Physics #Electron