Re: IONS on metals/dielectrics

["Ludwik Kowalski" <KowalskiL@Mail.Montclair.edu>]

Bob Sciamanda wrote:

> It's worse than you say!  Classical physics can't make a stable atom, let
> alone a solid piece of material (out of electrodynamic forces).  Maxwell
> would have the orbiting electrons radiate away their energy and spiral
> into the nucleus.

A very appropriate reminder. In my mind this paradox was the
problem with the most advanced part of e.m. (radiation of waves
into space).  Simple electrostatics, I was thinking, has no such
paradoxes and is explainable in terms of classical physics.