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Are quantum processes cosmologically induced?

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Why, among ∼1016 possibilities, does a wave function of a fast ion, spread over several centimeters, collapse in a crystal within a region measuring a few angstroms across? The most direct answer to this question would be the existence in this region of a cosmic particle, called a dybbuk, which induces the collapse. If dybbuks exist, deviations from conventional theory might be expected to occur for experiments involving ultrasmall space-time intervals less than the characteristic space-time interval of a dybbuk. It is shown that a dybbuk theory having the above characteristics can be constructed and can be tested experimentally by the decay of a0 − (J P) meson into two vector mesons.

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    Present address: Physics Department, Technion-Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel

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Part of this work was performed while the author was a National Academy of Science-National Research Council Senior Postdoctoral Research Associate (U.S.).

The author's name has recently been changed from Raymond Fox to Reuven Opher.

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Opher, R. Are quantum processes cosmologically induced?. Found Phys 5, 309–321 (1975). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00717446

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