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From: gwyn@brl-tgr.ARPA (Doug Gwyn <gwyn>)
Newsgroups: net.physics
Subject: Re: \"Randomness\" query
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Date: Mon, 22-Jul-85 20:49:57 EDT
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> How can something exist for a random amount of time and then decay?

I'm sure the list will be flooded with responses that the process
behind radioactive decay is inherently quantum-mechanical, and
quantum mechanics says that fundamental processes are inherently
probabilistic, with nothing "behind the scenes".  It is good that
this bothers you; it bothers a lot of us.  But nobody has found
any way around this yet.