Rabi cycle between hydrogen orbitals 3,2,1 and 4,3,0pic.twitter.com/9cOzsSyQ4l
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Cool! Given that energy quanta are discrete I had assumed that the state transitions would have no middle ground--just a flicker But now that I think of it, the speed of light being different in different media implies non-instantaneous transitions
As for the second part...
Well, there is a whole issue of collapse and whatnot. If you take the perspective of “not yet observed” systems, then everything is smooth and nice, even without including speed of light constraints.
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But when a photon travels through not-vacuum (glass, say) it's speed is lower whether or not it's observed, right? It's been a while since I took this class, but I think that's because it spends that extra time bound up in oscillating electron orbitals.
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I believe so.
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