Lab mimics Jupiter's Trojan asteroids inside a single atom
Tuesday, January 24, 2012 - 17:30
in Physics & Chemistry
Physicists have built an accurate model of part of the solar system inside a single atom. Scientists have shown that they could make an electron orbit the atomic nucleus in the same way that Jupiter's Trojan asteroids orbit the sun. The findings uphold a 1920 prediction by physicist Niels Bohr.