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minus-squareFuglyDuck@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up22·edit-22 years agoafter a certain point, you’re going to get to where you have to split an atom or two. fairly sure that’d be far less exciting than normal. Edit: i decided to try and figure out how long that would take… and per usual the law of large numbers caused my eyes to glaze over.
minus-squareSkyeStarfall@lemmy.blahaj.zonelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·2 years agohalf life times log2(amount of atoms), right?
minus-squareFuglyDuck@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·2 years agoI mean I didn’t get that far, I lost track of how many zeroes were in the half-life. (It’s 704ish million, right?)
after a certain point, you’re going to get to where you have to split an atom or two.
fairly sure that’d be far less exciting than normal.
Edit: i decided to try and figure out how long that would take… and per usual the law of large numbers caused my eyes to glaze over.
half life times log2(amount of atoms), right?
I mean I didn’t get that far, I lost track of how many zeroes were in the half-life.
(It’s 704ish million, right?)