I recently read in The Counter Creationism Handbook, in response to "everything must have a cause, therefore the universe must have a cause" that certain exceptions to the rule exist. One example was that the process of radioactive decay is causeless. Can anyone who knows some physics please elaborate on this concept in layman's terms? How can radioactive decay have no cause? All of our common experience dictates everything has a cause. Also, does anyone know of any other exceptions to causality besides radioactive decay? thanks

 

-ben

 

Use one of the lists of particles published by the Particle Data Group or the data published in ‘The Elements’ by John Emsley to construct a table showing the increase in mass (force of matter + force of vacuum). Form a fraction by placing the difference in mass values over the higher value (mass value of 3ev followed by 5ev gives a fraction of 2/5). A graph of baryon fractions is shown below. By constructing a theoretical mathematical sequence for comparison with the experimental fractions, we see the effect of ‘vacuum force’ on the ‘elasticity of matter’. On the left we see the relaxed state and on the right we see the compressed state. High compression causes particles to be ejected from elements No.83 and higher. Compression is not the only cause of radio-activity but, it is probably the main cause.

Label your axes lest someone calls BINGO!

What does your ideas say about a higher island of stability?