Short Story
The Plum Pudding Paradox
- by Jay Werkheiser
- Daily Science Fiction, 29 December 2010 [webzine]
H.G. Well’s Traveller goes back in time to persuade J.J. Thomson to not allow Rutherford to observe the nucleus of an atom.
Rutherford’s work will lead to a new theory called quantum mechanics. It’s nearly an inverse of your model, a central positive nucleus surrounded by a negatively charged cloud.
