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   Message 16,778 of 17,516   
   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   
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