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[–] FuglyDuck@lemmy.world 22 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year 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.

[–] SkyeStarfall@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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

[–] FuglyDuck@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year 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?)