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Muddy waters are fun.  Never know what is down there.


Here is the answer:  The electromagnetic force is about 10 raised to the 39th power stronger than the gravity. It totally overpowers gravity and is not even considered when doing computations on atomic structure.


The electron maintains it's distance because quantum mechanics does not allow the orbit to have smaller distance than some minimum. That is due to the wave nature of the electron.


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