I think we can all be 100% certain about one thing—- I’m sure a photon looks nothing like that since scientists these days are wrong about everything.
“This limitless possibility, however, makes the interactions exceptionally hard to model”
Agreed, the model is more ‘educated’ guess work than anything. The data coming out of the JWST lately simply does not match the conventional thought pushing a century now, the know-it-alls are going to have to start over on many things like the big bang theory, inflation, and the time/space theories are in conflict with popular theories.
I’ve seen a couple articles/vids recently that suggest that “dark energy” as we know it may not even exist from the data coming in from the JWST.