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IN NATURE of March 10, which I received yesterday, Prof. Schott remarks that the dynamical system illustrating the spectrum lines, which I communicated to NATURE of February 25, is unstable. This evidently rests on a misunderstanding, because the system which I have discussed is not identical with that which was investigated by Prof. Schott. I believe that the statement, “such an ideal atom will not be contradictory to the results of recent experiments,” led Prof. Schott to suppose that the system which I considered must be electrically neutral. Those who have read Maxwell's paper on the stability of Saturn's rings will admit, without Prof. Schott's comment, the futility of discussing an electrically neutral system with a central positive charge and a ring of negative electrons as satellites.
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NAGAOKA, H. A Dynamical System illustrating the Spectrum Lines. Nature 70, 124–125 (1904). https://doi.org/10.1038/070124d0
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