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Physics

Bohr Model

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The Bohr model correctly predicts the wavelengths of hydrogen's spectral lines with remarkable accuracy, yet it fails for helium and other atoms with more than one electron.

Why this is interesting

If an atom were the size of a football stadium, the nucleus would be a marble at the center. So why don't the tiny electrons simply crash into it, collapsing the atom?