Endogenous Radiogenic Perturbations as a Potential Contributor to Nonlinear Neural State Transitions

This project explores whether unavoidable endogenous radioactive decay events, primarily Potassium-40 beta decay, generate stochastic perturbations within neural tissue that may measurably influence nonlinear neural dynamics. Neural systems are widely modeled as metastable and near-critical, where small perturbations can affect state-transition probabilities and long-term plastic trajectories. This framework does not introduce new physics or violate conservation laws. Instead, it examines whether irreducible stochastic processes already embedded in biological substrates may have underexplored dynamical roles in timing variability and plastic divergence. The objective is to determine whether endogenous radiogenic perturbations function purely as negligible background noise or as statistically relevant contributors to nonlinear neural behavior.