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I have been reading some of the replies to this post ...
...and I notice that all of them favour the old and outmoded explanations ...
with their convoluted and complicated histories, while completely ignoring the Lamb Shift which in effect gives a neo-classical interpretation to the same phenomena.
The electron’s do not spiral into the nucleus because they are constantly emitting and absorbing virtual photons, thereby maintaining their momentum.
This is a phenomenon that has been both observed and proven through experiment.
That is quite incorrect. Where did you ever get the idea that this is how the quantum mechanics of the hydrogen atom works?
I should have perhaps added that this is not a QM explanation, rather it is a neo-classical physics explanation, ...
I hope you will agree that any fact proven by empirical evidence is preferable to conjecture or hypothetical reasoning. http://hyperphysics.phy-astr.gsu.edu/hbase/quantum/lamb.html