Once Thomson showed that atoms consist of very light negative electrons and a much more massive positive
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Once Thomson showed that atoms consist of very light negative electrons and a much more massive positive charge, why didn’t physicists immediately consider a solar system model of electrons orbiting a positive nucleus? Why would physicists in 1900 object to such a model?
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