Timeline for In a radioactive Bose-Einstein condensate, would all the atoms disintegrate simultaneously?
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| Sep 1, 2014 at 1:04 | comment | added | dmckee --- ex-moderator kitten | @SebastianHenckel You have no reason to assume that merely because the bulk motion of the atoms are coherent the internal states of their nuclei are also coherent; these phenomena are decoupled and happen at very different energy scales. | |
| Aug 31, 2014 at 23:54 | comment | added | rob♦ | Disagree; edited. | |
| Aug 31, 2014 at 23:54 | history | edited | rob♦ | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Aug 31, 2014 at 22:45 | comment | added | yippy_yay | A beta decay would knock the decaying atom out of the condensate - but WHILE it happens, the BEC still exists and if the codensate acts in unison, all the atoms should start decaying at the same time - they'd all be knocked out of the BEC after. | |
| Aug 30, 2014 at 3:14 | history | answered | rob♦ | CC BY-SA 3.0 |