UNCERTAINTY

Please excuse what may appear to be a vendetta against Professor Richard Feynman. It is nothing of the sort as I have great respect for the work he did and am unaware of anything comparable at the time or since.

Feynman built what to him was a comprehensive structure of quantum physics based upon the thinking of the day and was brave enough to share his thinking with history. He has provided us with a wonderful starting point for new ideas.

“Another most interesting change in the ideas and philosophy of science brought about by quantum mechanics is this: it is not possible to predict exactly what will happen in any circumstance. For example, it is possible to arrange an atom which is ready to emit light, and we can measure when it has emitted light by picking up a photon particle, which we shall describe shortly. We cannot,
however, predict when it is going to emit the light or, with several atoms, which one is going to. You may say that this is because there are some internal "wheels" which we have not looked at closely enough. No, there are no internal wheels; nature, as we understand it today, behaves in such a way that it is fundamentally impossible to make a precise prediction of exactly what will happen in a given experiment.”
― Richard Feynman, The Feynman Lectures on Physics

This fails to take into account the 'unknown wheels' of incident energy in the form of 'light' photons. If you could track their timing and energy as well as such things as the particular atoms with which they will interact and the preceding state of their 'electron charge' and do all of this (and perhaps more) in real time with sufficient time then remaining to declare your answer you could do so accurately. This becomes only a matter of 'prediction' because we lack information, it is not a matter of fundamental uncertainty. The tasks involved are now and may always remain beyond our capabilities.

“The chance that an atom emits a photon is enhanced if some photons (in a state that the atom can emit into) are already present. This phenomenon of "stimulated emission" was discovered by Einstein when he launched the quantum theory proposing the photon model of light. Lasers work on the basis of this phenomenon.”

― Richard Feynman, QED: The Strange Theory of Light and Matter

[Agnosco: Yes, if an electron of an atom is approaching saturation (almost fully charged with photons) it is on the brink of emitting a photon. Refer to https://www.hereticalphysics.com.]

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as the direct hereticalphysics site is no longer in use.