Is there an upper limit to the number of orbits an electron can have around say a proton? Arent there states that are unstable(for n!=1) with corresponding mean/half lives and therefore uncertainty in energy.
So how do we differentiate between 2 n values (say v1,v2) esp if the uncertainty associated with their energy levels gets larger to the order of the energy difference associated with the transition?
Also is it known that we can predict the following data with only computation resources being a bottleneck?
The half lives of each state(decay rate). The transition rate(from v2 to v1 given v2>v1)