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Thank you. I was extremely confused by the proposition because yes, it's known that energy states are quantized but I've never heard of any popular literature
by soulofmischief 7y ago
Thank you.
I was extremely confused by the proposition because yes, it's known that energy states are quantized but I've never heard of any popular literature before suggesting the transition itself was quantized. Intuitively it doesn't even make sense that it could be quantized.
Was this a popular scientific opinion?
- lisper 7y agoI can't figure out what the antecedent of "this" is. But like I said, the fact that quantum jumps are not instantaneous is not and has never been controversial AFAIK.
- lisper 7y agoUPDATE: It turns out that in the VERY early days of QM, some researchers (notably Niels Bohr) thought that quantum jumps were instantaneous. But it has been known and universally accepted that they are not for decades now.