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We cannot find new laws of motion to account for Bohr’s orbits and his “leaps”? Fine, let’s stick with the laws of motion that we’re familiar with, without altering them. Let’s change, instead, our way of thinking about the electron. Let’s give up describing its movement. Let’s describe only what we can observe: the light it emits. Let’s base everything on quantities that are observable. This is the idea.
Helgoland: Making Sense of the Quantum Revolution
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