In reply to Jürg Wyttenbach's message of Mon, 25 Jan 2021 12:15:18 +0100: Hi, [snip] >The term quantization has been introduced by German theorist in good old >plain vanilla mechanics of coupled rotating masses. > >The term then was transported to QM with. With h' somebody invented the >myth a minimal quantum. Experiments do show that E=hv is just a >proportionality relation nothing else. The frequency can assume any real >valued number. Thus fractions of h' must occur! > >Even atomic orbits are not at all strictly quantized as orbits always >have a dopler width.
The point is that they are quantized to some extent, or there would be no lines at all, just a continuum. I think that atomic orbits are quantized because all photons have the same angular momentum. This provides a much simpler explanation for allowed and dis-allowed atomic transitions than the set of rules currently used in QM. In short, the photons, that would be emitted or absorbed, are responsible for the atomic quantization, not the electrons. That leaves the electrons free to behave as you would have it, provided that they don't need to interact with a photon.
