Are There Quantum Jumps? revisited

Google has given the world a product that gives us a fine AI tool for making knowledge accessible to large numbers of relatively uneducated people.  It is Notebook LM.

One of the most intriguing things about quantum mechanics after the 1926 paper of Erwin Schodinger was how he came to see it in retrospect.  He wrote about it in a chapter of a book, What is Life?.  The chapter is Are There Quantum Jumps?.  I wrote a series of 3 articles that were published in Infinite Energy Magazine.  This series was focuses on the work of Dr. Randell Mills and his SunCell reactor in view of Schrodinger's thoughts expressed in that chapter.  The man who told me about that chapter was Dr. Hawkins Kirk, a physics professor and researcher extraordinaire.  His influence did much to bring real science into focus for me during our years of working together to try to make sense of "cold fusion" related phenomena.

Notebook LM accepts a variety of files types and uses them as a basis for creating an audio file, such as this one, used as a sound track for a YouTube video with the video providing the text of the chapter.  It based only on that chapter of Schrodinger's, and information about a recent edition of the book that omitted this crucial chapter.  

I found it odd that an editor would disrespect the intentions of Dr. Schrodinger by omitting that controversial chapter.  It represents honest misgivings about the directions that physics had taken, as a result of the Schrodinger Equation.  Science must be open to questioning, especially from particularly knowledgeable and seminal thinkers like him, or it turns to ankylosis.

I expressed my dismay at that editor's choice on a Reddit forum.  The response I got back was one reason that I gave up on social media.  This guy insisted that the editor had every right to pick and choose whatever he wanted to include in the new edition, which I do not dispute, but I question his motives.  My questioning was seen as conspiracy theorizing.

Rational discussion seems to be a lost art.  Arthur Schopenhauer understood this well.  His advice to debaters is valid and laced with sarcasm.

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