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To: Doctor Stochastic

So what is your response to 598?

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1535529/posts?page=598#598


659 posted on 12/09/2005 4:13:36 AM PST by js1138 (Great is the power of steady misrepresentation.)
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To: js1138; Right Wing Professor; Physicist

I'm not sure #598 describes nuclear decay exactly. I don't think that there are any micro-states that describe the time of decay. I think that the best one can do is get an expected decay time (or equivalently, a half-life.)


672 posted on 12/09/2005 6:41:54 AM PST by Doctor Stochastic (Vegetabilisch = chaotisch ist der Charakter der Modernen. - Friedrich Schlegel)
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