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John Denker wrote:.
The questions that were being asked (arrival times and various
cumulative and marginal distributions) are purely mathematical
questions. They contain no physics whatsoever, and there's
no point in pretending otherwise.
An experiment with a Geiger counter, or with a different counter
of nuclear transformations, is a way to demonstrate that such
transformations are "IID events (Independent and Identically
Distributed over time)", as you referred to them yesterday.
Is this physics? How else can this fact about the nature of
radioactivity can be demonstrated?
Ludwik Kowalski