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From: trc@hou5a.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.physics
Subject: A Cracked Crock
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Date: Fri, 31-Aug-84 18:30:21 EDT
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Posted: Fri Aug 31 18:30:21 1984
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A crackpot notion hit me, and I just thought I'd toss it into 
net.physics to see what sort of ripples it makes:

Suppose that radioactive materials "normally" decay almost instantly - 
in their *own* time - but that their time somehow passes much slower 
than the time we normally perceive.  That is, think of a tiny almost 
black hole - with the radiation process underway, but time "warped" so 
that from our perspective, it appears to be going on *much* much slower.

Then, if we assume that some form of external event is able to inject 
weak influences, which act on the matter to increase the rate of decay 
by some amount, by "speeding its time up" by a miniscule fraction.  
This process is "pseudo-random" - IE it is not normally feasible to 
measure the its exact influences, or to correlate it to some macroscopic 
quality.  EG motion of other particles around the matter.   (But bash 
another particle into it really hard, and it is more likely to decay.)

Eventually such influences build up  and the particle decays far enough 
to destroy its "time warp" effect, causing an apparently instantaneous, 
event in our time, without any warning we can yet detect.  The result 
is an apparently random distribution of radiation events in our timeline - 
but in fact is totally deterministic.  

This crock could also be used to explain how matter could simultaneously 
be "solid" and "wave-like" - it acts like a "frozen wave" in some cases, 
and in some special cases, its wave nature is still important.  Its 
"frozen" nature explains why it interacts - two light waves can apparently 
pass through each other, but matter (which is "frozen" light waves) 
interacts - IE it tries to accommodate to the other matter, but in its 
own time line, it isnt fast enough.  Electric fields are due to light
frozen in such as way that the electromagnetic fields done cancel out.  
Oh well, this crock is getting wilder by the line.

Tom Craver	hou5a!trc or hou4b!trc