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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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W. B. Bonnor (1999) studied this question.
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