ON DISCRETE STATES DUE TO MACROSCOPIC FLUCTUATIONS

It is shown that due to fluctuations, a sequence of discrete values is generated by successive measurement events whatever the type of the p rocess measured. The corresponding histograms have much the same shape at any given time and for processes of a different nature and are ver y likely to change the shape simultaneously for various processes and in widely distant laboratories. For a series of successive histograms, any given one is with high probability similar to its nearest neighbo urs and occurs repeatedly with a period of 24 hours, 27 days, and abou t 365 days, thus implying that the phenomenon has a very profound cosm ophysical (or cosmogonic) origin.