Radioactive Decay, a Model for Random Events

Daniel Rüschen, Johannes Freese, Moritz Cajetan Schrey +1 more

M. D. Arthur, Henry Brysk, Stefano L. Paveri-Fontana +1 more

Slobodan Prvanović

Dmytro Melnychenko

Causal reinterpretation of radioactive decay within standard quantum theory. Proposes that decay events correspond to fixed nodes in a static causal topology rather than temporally generated stochastic processes. Spacetime is treated as an emergent projection of relational structure. The exponential decay law is preserved and no modification of quantum mechanical predictions is introduced. Apparent randomness is reinterpreted as epistemic access to an underlying causal structure.

Eran Sinbar

Schrodinger’s cat describes a paradox in which a cat is located in a sealed black box with a poison sealed capsule inside it. Radioactive source decays and emits radiation, which activates a Geiger counter, The Geiger counter generates a signal to release poison from the capsule and kill the cat. Since the decay of a radioactive source is a random sub atomic event, based on quantum mechanics we can only derive a probability-based assumption on the exact time that the decay of the radioactive atom will occur. The Copenhagen interpretation says that until an observer opens the box, the entire system is in superposition and the cat is both dead and alive. In this paper, I will show that we can extrapolate this superposition paradox also to the time domain and the entropy level of the system.

Eran Sinbar

Schrodinger’s cat describes a paradox in which a cat is located in a sealed black box with a poison sealed capsule inside it. Radioactive source decays and emits radiation, which activates a Geiger counter, The Geiger counter generates a signal to release poison from the capsule and kill the cat. Since the decay of a radioactive source is a random sub atomic event, based on quantum mechanics we can only derive a probability-based assumption on the exact time that the decay of the radioactive atom will occur. The Copenhagen interpretation says that until an observer opens the box, the entire system is in superposition and the cat is both dead and alive. In this paper, I will show that we can extrapolate this superposition of the wave function to entropy level, to the fabric of space – time, to the information paradox of black holes, new dimensions and to the multiverse theory.