No, the story is interesting because it shows the authorities on the subject do get things wrong, and because Townes and many other important scientists knew th

No, the story is interesting because it shows the authorities on the subject do get things wrong, and because Townes and many other important scientists knew that the simple idea of instantaneous quantum jumps due to Bohr and Heisenberg and maybe Pauli (I think these three were one the most prominent proponents) wasn't that well secured by the general quantum theory and by the experiments.