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| May 8, 2015 at 0:20 | comment | added | CuriousOne | I would say this is a clear "NO!". There are no classical electron states from which and to which a classical charge could move and Maxwell's equations do not describe a single emitted photon. A continuously moving and strongly accelerated "dropping" electron over the average distance of atomic orbits would emit a continuous spectrum probably all the way trough the x-ray or even gamma ray spectrum (because it would get extremely close to the nucleus) and not a sharply defined optical spectral line. Classical electrodynamics can, of course, not even describe the stability of the atom. | |
| May 7, 2015 at 22:12 | answer | added | user27118 | timeline score: 1 | |
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| May 7, 2015 at 21:09 | history | asked | Dylan R | CC BY-SA 3.0 |