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January 1, 1999Classical and Quantum Gravity32 citations

Size of a hydrogen atom in the expanding universe

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WBW. B. Bonnor

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I take a simple model of the hydrogen atom in a universe without spatial curvature. The Maxwell equations are formulated on the background cosmic spacetime. For a class of cosmic metrics, which includes the de Sitter universe, these equations admit solutions corresponding to an atom whose radius remains strictly constant during the expansion. In the Einstein-de Sitter universe approximate calculations show that the atom expands, but at a rate which is negligible compared with the general cosmic expansion.

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synapsesocial.com/papers/6a222cc52e065aea60493c46https://doi.org/10.1088/0264-9381/16/4/020
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