A Phenomenological Relation for Decay Times
Year: 2014
Type: article
Abstract: Georges Lemaitre was invited to London in 1931 in order to take part in a meeting of the British Association on the relation between the physical Universe and spirituality. There he proposed that the Universe expended from an initial point, which he called the ‘Primeval Atom’ and developed in a report published in Nature: ‘The beginning of the World from the Point of View of Quantum Theory’. [1] This article tries to make clear how the way in which the universe is supposed to have come into being directs (and can therefore be the deeper cause of) all quantum mechanical events. On the basis of hidden symmetries a‘smallest space-action’ (or ‘smallest limited amount of uncertainty’) is established, which provides a connection between all that is and which lays down the boundaries within which all variation is possible; unity in diversity then.
Authors: Frans De Medts, TU Eindhoven
Language: English
Subfield: Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics
Field: Physics and Astronomy
Domain: Physical Sciences
Open Access status: diamond
OpenAlex ID: W2281862445