Abstract
We describe an unusual resonance in the total fluorescence intensity which appears when two unidirectional and spatially separated light beams intersect a beam of freely propagating NO2 molecules. No conventional explanation of the observations seems to be possible. However the experimental results are in agreement with previously reported experiments and with the previously introduced assumption, that underlying the conventionally expected quantum states of the molecule is a substructure which evolves irreversibly in time.
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