As I understand it, an atom is made up of a nucleus of neutrons and protons, with a load of electrons orbiting it.
Like this;
So how do the electrons keep moving ?
Everything else that moves either slows down, or needs some sort of energy input to keep it moving.
The solar system might appear to us and our time scale to be moving at a constant rate, but it is gradually losing inertia and slowing down. For example, the moon has already stopped rotating on it's axis.
If you left that carbon atom in a box, then came back in a million years, those electrons would still be whizzing around just as you left them.
How do they do that ?
