EPR experiment prohibit locality?”) The precise moment/location of the
split is not sharply defined due to the subjective nature of irreversibility, but can be considered complete when much more than kT of energy has been released in an uncontrolled fashion into the environment. At this stage the event has become irreversible. In the language of thermodynamics the amplification of the charged particle’s presence by the Geiger counter is an irreversible event.