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Originally Posted by cyrek1
[Snip!]My visualization sees an electron circling a proton (planetary style) to cause the proton to spin. This proton spin then generates a magnetic field. The electrons magnetic field resulting from its orbital motion interacts with the protons magnetic field. These fields are repulsive towards each other to stabilize the electron into a ground state orbit. As long as there are no nearby charged particles, this balanced state will remain that way.
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Wrong, utterly wrong. First, electrons do not "circle" nuclei in "planetary style". By quantum mechanics all we have is a wavefunction that results in a probability cloud where at best you can calculate the probability of observing an electron with those quantum numbers at that location in the atom.
Also, protons, neutrons, and electrons have an intrinsic spin of 1/2 h-bar, no more, no less. They do not need one another to "cause" one another to spin. There are various spin-orbit and spin-spin interactions that can change the direction of spin, but not the total magnitude.