If electrons actually 'orbited' a nucleus, then no atoms could ever form The electron would radiate away all its energy and fall into the nucleus in about 10 𝑡𝑟𝑖𝑙𝑙𝑖𝑜𝑛𝑡𝘩𝑠 of a secondpic.twitter.com/5JvjrhpAGl
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wait, why would it fall? planets can have stable orbits, why electrons can't?
because the energy emitted by EM radiation is much more than that emitted by gravitational radiation (i.e. gravity is weak)
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but gravity is a property of space, it doesn't radiate away, the electron could be riding on a similar curvature of space
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yes, but the curvature of space is related to the energy density of spacetime (via the Einstein field equations) and the energy density can still be more or less in a given region
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