(October 21, 2021 at 1:59 pm)vulcanlogician Wrote:(October 21, 2021 at 1:46 pm)Jehanne Wrote: What would Aristotle say about the spontaneous transitions of electrons in bounded atomic or molecular orbits?
Maybe he'd say that was due to "formal" causes. The particular shape (or more precisely "form") of the electron causes specific interactions with specific things. Of course, Aristotle's observations were far too rudimentary to have picked up on quantum subtleties. It took scientists a couple centuries to apprehend these things even after Newton.
In other words, "woo-woo".