Timeline for Rate in Fermi's golden rule

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Dec 4, 2015 at 8:05	comment	added	nabla		I don't see how this definition is counting how much of a thing happens per time. If a process follows, say, Poissonian statistics, then the mean time until the next event is $1/\lambda$, so $\lambda$ events are happening per unit of time. But here the only thing I see is a probability divided by $t$.
Dec 3, 2015 at 23:36	comment	added	DanielSank		A rate, by definition, is how much of a thing happens per time. If you want to know more than that you'll have to be more specific in the question.
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