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I AM unable to agree with Sir Oliver Lodge (NATURE, January 29, p. 609) that the impossibility of the existence of two coplanar rings of electrons with the same angular velocity is self-evident, though it is proved very simply. For the mutual repulsions of the electrons in different rings are complicated, and their effect on any ring varies very much with the number of electrons. I think the amount of proof given in my letter is necessary, especially since, in discussions of two rings, inequality of angular velocity has not often been mentioned.
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NICHOLSON, J. Atomic Models and X-Ray Spectra. Nature 92, 630 (1914). https://doi.org/10.1038/092630a0
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