International Journal of Mathematics and Mathematical Sciences
Volume 19 (1996), Issue 2, Pages 397-402
doi:10.1155/S0161171296000543
An operator equation and relativistic alterations in the time for radioactive decay
Mathematics Department, United States Naval Academy, 572 Holloway Rd., Annapolis 21402-5002, MD, USA
Received 29 September 1994
Copyright © 1996 Robert A. Herrmann. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
Abstract
In this paper, using concepts from the nonstandard physical world, the linear effect
line element is derived. Previously, this line element was employed to obtain, with the exception
of radioactive decay, all of the experimentally verified special theory relativistic alterations in
physical measures. This line element is now used to derive, by means of separation of variables,
an expression that predicts the same increase in the decay time for radioactive material as that
predicted by the Einstein time dilation assumption. This indicates that such an increase in lifetime
can be attributed to an interaction of the radioactive material with a nonstandard electromagnetic
field rather than to a basic time dilation.