Recent content by aviv

Thanks, will do!

Thanks everyone. I still don't like the idea of a particle having no position until measured because if it has no certain position then how can it be in a certain position once measured, or to be measured? Same with a particle colliding, how can a particle collide in a certain position when it...

Thanks a lot that clears up a few things. I still don't understand a hell of a lot about this, like how exctly "the act of measutremnt forces the nucleus to decide whether it has decayed or not" but I still have many many many years to figure it out Thanks again.

How so? And, do you mean that until measured, the alpha particle has no real position and that it only gets a position once measured?

So what you are saying that the time of decay is not predictible only when you insert measurement. That if I was a being that knew all that was going on at the present, I could predict the exact time a certain nucleus will decay. And that it is only when you bring in us humans trying to measure...

So what if we magically figure out the energy levels and all the properties of an unstable nucleus at a certain time (I know this is impossible but just for the sake or argument). Could we then predict the exact time of decay of that nucleus?

What makes nuclei disintegrate at a certain point in time as opposed to another? As in, what is the fundamental reason for disintegration finally happening in an unstable nucleus?