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No this is all wrong. Fire crackles clearly depend on state. Nuclear decay is memoryless; decays are independent events. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radioa
by pxx 3y ago
No this is all wrong. Fire crackles clearly depend on state. Nuclear decay is memoryless; decays are independent events.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radioactive_decay#Mathematics https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radioactive_decay#Mathematic...
> theoretical >12 sources
What?
- nonrandomstring 3y agoThanks for the correction on nuclear state. It's hard to imagine anything having absolutely no state - but I guess a nucleus is not a "thing" as such, even if surrounded by lots of similar non-things. Does state not subsist in the total assembled mass in my example of near-critical collection?
- nonrandomstring 3y agoJust answering myself after some reading today. No, not really Because fission caused by free neutrons (which are rare) is something different from more common "spontaneous" radio-decay. That does beg the question; what is the cause that we don't yet understand, what lies behind little bits of the universe falling apart?