Re: Why ...
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Electron-electron repulsion. (Many times over.)
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Yes. Thanks.
My friend, who had a more than adequate technical education, disputes this. I don't understand why he can't think in fundamental terms.
Anyway, I found a passage in Carl Sagan's book Cosmos which should do the trick. Apparently, this is a question Arthur Eddington liked to ask. That should be authority enough.
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