Quantum Jumps Are Ready for Retirement

Erwin Schrodinger said as much and David Deutsch also wrote about this. Under the laws of quantum theory, change is always continuous in both space and time. When an electron in a higher energy state undergoes a transition to a lower energy level, emitting a photon, it quantum jumps from one discrete orbit to another without passing through intermediate states. The truth is that the electron does not have a single energy or position, but a range of energies and positions,. And the allowed range itself can change with time.