Maybe these help: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_decay
http://www.eas.asu.edu/~holbert/eee460/decay.html Meow! Terry On Fri, Jul 24, 2009 at 2:11 PM, OrionWorks<[email protected]> wrote: > Strictly approaching this question from a layman's POV: > > Is it conceivable to speculate that an unknown component, one that is > possibly bound to the effects of "time dilation" play an integral role > in determining the rate of decay in radioactive nucleus, specifically > when an atom decides to "decay"? > > An empirical observation, one that my brain has never been able to > adequately grasp, is how seemingly deterministic the rate of nuclear > decay appears to be, particularly when one takes into account very > large samples of unstable atoms. That "half lives" can be determined > with such incredible accuracy boggles my mind. > > Or am I simply repeating speculation (albeit less eloquently) that has > already been brought up in recent threads concerning "Hydrinos", > "Lorentz contraction", and "event horizon" stuff. > > Regards > Steven Vincent Johnson > www.OrionWorks.com > www.zazzle.com/orionworks > >
