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The problem is that your model doesn't explain the phenomenon, it just adds more mystery.
Two ping pong balls, one positive charged, one negative charged, put them close in range. What will happen?Do they stick together or obit? If they don't obit why proton and electron in atoms do?
Quantum mechanics is essential to understanding the behavior of systems at atomic length scales and smaller. If the physical nature of an atom was solely described by classical mechanics electrons would not "orbit" the nucleus since orbiting electrons emit radiation (due to circular motion) and would eventually collide with the nucleus due to this loss of energy. This framework was unable to explain the stability of atoms. Instead, electrons remain in an uncertain, non-deterministic, "smeared", probabilistic, wave–particle orbital about the nucleus, defying the traditional assumptions of classical mechanics and electromagnetism.
Is this a reasonable doubt about the standard model?
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As from your quote, scientist think atom is like mini solar system, the electrons are circling the nucleus.
If the physical nature of an atom was solely described by classical mechanics electrons would not "orbit" the nucleus since orbiting electrons emit radiation (due to circular motion) and would eventually collide with the nucleus due to this loss of energy.
If the model is right.