In reply to [email protected]'s message of Sun, 17 Mar 2013 20:43:13 -0400 (EDT): Hi Lou, [snip] >Robin, > >I believe that the 782 keV represents a steep electroweak barrier that >repels electrons from protons at a very close range where it overwhelms >the coulomb attractive force. Since the proton is a "quark bag", the >equations governing the complete interaction become quite challenging >- too much for me to tackle.
I don't think the electrons are actually repelled. They either react or they don't (pure chance). If they don't then their kinetic energy just carries them away again. Much as a comet passing the Sun. [snip] Regards, Robin van Spaandonk http://rvanspaa.freehostia.com/project.html
