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IN a recent book Prof. R. O. Kapp1 has suggested that atoms of matter disappear spontaneously in a statistically random manner with a half-life of about 4 × 108 years and that it is this extinction of matter which causes gravitational attraction. It is the purpose of this communication to point out that there is no reason why the confirmation or disproof of this suggestion should not be established by means of existing techniques.
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SWART, E. Does Matter have a Half-Life?. Nature 194, 464 (1962). https://doi.org/10.1038/194464a0
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