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[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

half life times log2(amount of atoms), right?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

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?)