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| − | [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spontaneous_emission Spontaneous emission. Why does an electron in an excited state decay at all?] | + | [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spontaneous_emission Spontaneous emission. Why does an electron in an excited state decay at all?] The theory we've presented so far explicitly prohibits this since stationary states are, well, stationary. This is the realm of Quantum Electrodynamics (QED). |
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Spontaneous emission. Why does an electron in an excited state decay at all? The theory we've presented so far explicitly prohibits this since stationary states are, well, stationary. This is the realm of Quantum Electrodynamics (QED).
