Quantum Entanglement and Radioactivity: A New Perspective on Nuclear Decay

John Christian William McKinley

This paper states a narrow interpretive claim about stable and radioactive bound configurations under the matter-side reading of the Timeless Light Model. It introduces no new equations and alters no predictive content of atomic physics, nuclear physics, or quantum mechanics. The claim is that stable and radioactive bound configurations are two presentations of the same structural reading: each is timeless lawful structure in force, registered in spacetime when called on, with registrations governed by lawful content. Stable configurations have no admissible spontaneous decay channel under the operative description; nothing registers, and nothing accumulates. Radioactive configurations have at least one decay channel in their lawful content; channel realizations register along the worldline at rate λ fixed by content. The paper argues that neither stable nor radioactive matter undergoes substance-aging. Stable atoms do not grow older as degraded versions of themselves, and radioactive atoms do not age toward decay. A radioactive nucleus that has not yet realized its decay channel retains the same decay probability per unit proper time in the experimentally dominant exponential regime. Bulk decay curves describe cumulative counting of channel realizations across an ensemble, not individual atomic wear. The result is interpretive only. It preserves the standard exponential-decay law, the standard treatment of stationary states, and the standard predictive machinery of atomic and nuclear physics. Its contribution is ontological: stability and radioactivity are content-level distinctions, not different categories of being.

Hector Mauricio Castañeda Cortés

George Gamow

V. S. Olkhovsky, V. V. DAVYDOVSKY, М.E. Dolinska +1 more

The self-consistent methods in time analysis of nuclear collisions and decays are based on the properties of time as a quantum observable, canonically conjugate to energy, and the appropriate definition of mean durations of quantum collisions, the variances in their distributions, the decay functions, and the surviving functions of the meta-stable states, including radioactive and compound nuclei. Even a simplified application of these methods for the elementary study of the α-decay in the exponential-law-decay approximation resulted in the simple phenomenological method of the determination of the α-particle one-step virtual and real sojourn time inside the parent α-radioactive nucleus between the α-particle successive incoherent multiple internal reflections during the α-decay. And also the direct temporal study of the quasi-monochromatic proton scattering by 12 C and 14 N nuclei at the range of isolated resonances distorted by the nonresonant background, accompanied by the bremsstrahlung, brings to the simple revealing of the possible existence of the delay–advance phenomenon in the proton emission during scattering (in the center-of-mass system). The utilization of the self-consistent methods of time analysis to the study of high-energy nuclear reactions (near and above 0.1 GeV per nucleon in the final compound–fragment formations) resulted in the discovery of the phenomenon of time resonances (or explosions) for such formations. Some perspectives of the further study of the evident temporal phenomena in nuclear processes are also indicated.

Shawn Eastmond

In this paper, we introduce, for the first time ever, the formulation of the q-Ruark-Devol density function, a q-deformed generalization of the classical Ruark-Devol density function used to model radioactive decay processes. By employing quantum calculus (q-calculus), a branch of mathe- matics that generalizes classical calculus through the introduction of a deformation parameter q, we derive the q-Ruark-Devol density differential equation and demonstrate its reduction to the classical result in the limit q → 1. We provide a rigorous theoretical background on q -calculus, including the q - derivative, q -Leibniz product rule , and q -exponential, which are requirements for modeling deformed radioactive decay processes, in our framework. Furthermore, we explore the physical implications of the q-Ruark-Devol density function and its potential applications in quantum sensing, quantum op- tics, and neutrino detection. This work bridges the gap between classical and quantum-inspired mod- els of radioactive decay, offering a new perspective on the statistical behavior of decay processes in deformed or non-standard environments.

David J. Dean