On Sun, Mar 17, 2013 at 10:03 AM, David Roberson <[email protected]> wrote:

I assume that the only reason that they do not join together is because of
> some form of quantum mechanical process.  It is interesting that the
> electron seeks close companionship with the proton, but not too close.
>

I would imagine the potential barrier imposed by the need to generate a
huge W- boson virtual particle in connection with the weak interaction is
responsible for some of this.

Eric

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