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Re:Particle seen switching between matter and antimatter at ... by tremon on Saturday June 12, 2021 @05:59PM (#27487758)
What fascinates me is that these oscillations appear to be continuous. What is it exactly that they're measuring/showing in the decay plot?

Shouldn't the state transitions be discrete events, and therefore the plot show a square wave instead of a sine?

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Re:Particle seen switching between matter and antimatter at ... by dukwon on Saturday June 12, 2021 @06:03PM (#27487782)
The time-dependent probability of being in either flavour eigenstate is sinusoidal. It's not like a ticking clock.
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