From: banerjeeadda1234@gmail.com   
      
   > Treating the electron as a classical orbiting body is extremely   
   > simplistic in itself.  Any detailed study of electrons in atoms has to   
   > be based on quantum mechanics.  Indeed, the Bohr model itself works on   
   > the basis that only orbits of certain energy levels are permitted,   
   > something that would not apply to a classical orbiting body.   
      
   There could be other models of the atom, apart from the Bohr model.   
   In the model implicit in my proposal, the electrons around a particular   
   nucleus have staggered orbits around the nucleus corresponding to the   
   proximity of other electrons.   
      
   In astronomical terms, this is equivalent to the perturbation of a planet's   
   motion around the Sun due to the gravitional pull of another planet, which may   
   or may not be known.   
      
   Science is never limited by any particular model, no matter how universally   
   accepted, so the Bohr model and its assumptions need not limit newer ways of   
   understanding what goes on within the atom.   
      
   Then again, energy levels cannot be measured for any individual atom.   
   They are an average phenomenon.   
      
   For an individual atom, the energy level for an electron should be time   
   variant on the instantanous basis; if we allow that electrons orbiting the   
   nucleus are affected by other electrons orbiting the nucleus, then surely they   
   cannot go around with a    
   smooth orbit, going by the planetary motion discussed just above.   
      
      
   >   
   > Interactions with other electrons are indeed extremely relevant, but   
   > these interactions are analysed in terms of models that are even more   
   > explicitly quantum in nature.  It is unlikely that a model based on the   
   > interactions of negatively-charged classical bodies would yield much of   
   > use.   
   >   
   > - Gerry Quinn   
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