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But then what happens? Does it expel an electron/release energy etc.?
by huytersd 2y ago
But then what happens? Does it expel an electron/release energy etc.?
- greenbit 2y agoProbably just emits another photon of the exact same wavelength a short time later. The time would be probabilistic, like 50% chance of emission in X amount of time.
- graycat 2y agoPhysics does not emphasize this, but the half life concept essentially assumes a Poisson process (Cinlar, Stochastic Processes) which has a Markov (past and future conditionally independent given the present, details from the Radon-Nikodym theorem, with a cute von Neumann polynomial proof, Rudin, Real and Complex Analysis) assumption. The half life concept seems to be standard over much of physics. That a Markov assumption could hold might suggest some new physics.
- snarkconjecture 2y agoHow so? Isn't the Markov property just a consequence of basic QM?
- nathan_compton 2y agoSome people probing the boundaries of QM look for correlations in rapidly repeated measurements in hopes of finding some non-random quality.
- snarkconjecture 2y agoThat sounds like the opposite of what graycat was suggesting.