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 process measured. The corresponding histograms have much the same shape at any given time and for processes of a different nature and are very 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 neighbours and occurs repeatedly with a period of 24 hours, 27 days, and about 365 days, thus implying that the phenomenon has a very profound cosmophysical (or cosmogonic) origin.