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|    Douglas Eagleson to All    |
|    Re: confirmation of undisputed results    |
|    18 Jan 21 18:16:13    |
      From: eaglesondouglas@gmail.com              On Monday, January 4, 2021 at 4:49:11 AM UTC-5, Phillip Helbig (undress to       reply) wrote:       > Not much effort is put into confirming or refuting undisputed results or       > expectations, but occasionally it does happen. For example, according       > to theory muons are supposed to be essentially just like electrons but       > heavier, but there seems to be experimental evidence that that is not       > the case, presumably because someone decided to look for it.       >       > What about even more-basic stuff? For example, over what range (say,       > multiple or fraction of the peak wavelength) has the Planck black-body       > radiation law been experimentally verified? Or that radioactive decay       > really follows an exponential law? Or that the various forms (weak,              given a single neutron creating a single radioisotope atom       the question becomes "can it never decay?" Meaning does       decay have a probability distribution.              The rate of decay in an exponential function leads to a       non-converging function. I might submit that it is exponential,       but has a time variable called "last atom decayed".              The natural existence of a characteristic decay rate implies       an atom set lifetime. Now a convergent?              But, at some time the last atom.              Given a set of atoms and a 100percent counting efficiency       will the number of counts ever equal the number of       atoms.              basically needing mathematical solution. How to solve       this dilemma? I am still open on this question but       submit it as a version of the halving distances function       dilemma. "If you halve the distance to an object forever       do you ever finally reach the object?"              Or attack it by doing axis or time transform.              --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05        * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)    |
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