Hello everybody!
I'm actually a mathematician but occasionally I read stuff on quantum physics for fun and a few days ago I read something that really surprised me. Since then I was trying to get an idea about the actual mathematics behind my discovery but couldn't. So here I am hoping that...
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On "There is no timer" from mfb:
If that is true then I don't understand the Quantum Zeno effect:
http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum_Zeno_effect
"Consider a system in a state A, which is the eigenstate of some measurement operator. Say the system under free...
Hi everyone!
I have two questions about radioactive decay that some of you might be able to answer (I'm a mathematician and no physicist by the way). The first one is very general:
As I understand it the time at which a single instable atom decays is believed to be a truly random process. But...