Temporally-quantized theory of exponential radioactive decay: Resolution of Zeno's paradox of quantum theory

Sidney Golden

Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications, 1995, vol. 215, issue 1, 181-200

Abstract: As characterized experimentally by Rutherford, an essential feature of radioactive decompositions is their being constituted of randomly occurring events in terms of which the decomposing systems exhibit exponential temporal decay behavior with associated characteristic half-lives. This feature is rigorously accounted for generally by the recent temporally-quantized dynamical theory of strictly-irreversible evolution of isolated and localized non-relativistic quantum systems, which theory also obviates the celebrated Zeno's paradox of conventional quantum theory.

Date: 1995
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DOI: 10.1016/0378-4371(94)00264-T

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