Roger that. But I notice he’s making reference to ‘zero point’ energy, amongst some pretty other bizarre assertations with repsect to quarks. It almost seems as if he’s trying to assert some sort of quantum mechanical affect.
It would also seem the article is predicated on the instances where the electron is actually on the nucleus. Something which apparently happens frequently according to the author.
Well yes, the l=0 n=0 bound state wavefunction of an electron has finite probability of being in the neighborhood of the nucleus, but the probability is about 1x10-15^3/.5*10-8^3 (ratioing atomic and nuclear volumes), so the probability of being "in" the nucleus is about 1*10-11. It is pretty small so any proposed close-in screening of the nuclear charge by the atomic charge is pretty negligible as a direct consequence of this weigting of charge densities.