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Wheelwalker
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I've recently realized I have completely taken for granted that electrons simply tend to be found in their ground state. I want to understand fundamentally what is causing the electron to drop back to its ground state. It feels a force from the positively charged nucleus, but if it was given exactly enough energy to hop up into an excited state, how does it lose that energy and consequently get forced back "down"?