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Radioactivity (mander.xyz)

submitted 3 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 99 points 3 months ago (3 children)

It will be radioactive forever. The question is where you put the threshold, which is fairly arbitrary.

[–] [email protected] 25 points 3 months ago (3 children)

If you only think about half live then yes it would be radioactive forever but in reality after a long time every atom would've decayed into non radioactive elements.

You can even calculate the expected time it would take for the random process of decay to terminate.

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[–] [email protected] 45 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Eh, it could be non-radioactive next week. That's not very likely, but it could be

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 months ago

It would imply a significant energy release within a short time in order to become non-radioactive right?

[–] [email protected] 30 points 3 months ago (2 children)

eh, i could randomly teleport to the moon suddently, but things like theese are unlikely enough to be in effect completely and utterly impossible.

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