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This is a fantastic idea and I don't think it's impossible. Though I'm only an amateur physicist, it seems plausible that decay could be a little less random th
by pontifier 6y ago
This is a fantastic idea and I don't think it's impossible. Though I'm only an amateur physicist, it seems plausible that decay could be a little less random than we think.
I remember reading about seasonal half-life variability that could have been due to changes in solar neutrino flux.
I also remember something about changes in half-life when atoms were placed inside c60 spheres.
I haven't read anything for or against it, but I'd be interested in if a Bose-Einstein condensate of a fissile material may exhibit a tendency to particular products.
I'm with you on this one, and I think there is much room for improvement and further experiment.
- nathias 6y ago> Though I'm only an amateur physicist, it seems plausible that decay could be a little less random than we think. How is that plausible? Wouldn't that falsify all the quantum mechanics?
- pontifier 6y agoIf the presence of a neutrino (or dark mater particle) is required for fission to occur, would this really be testable currently? Maybe there are other effects that influence decay that we haven't fully been able to investigate. I'm just saying that we don't know everything yet, and it may be possible to influence these things in some way in the future.
- yummypaint 6y agoPeople have looked into this using fission. There are many possible ways to emit a given fission fragment (different nuclei, reactions, etc). You can look at whether the history of a particular nucleus produced from fission influences its decay. I haven't seen one of these studies that has observed deviation from the expected markovian behavior outside of measurement uncertainty.