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Doesn't matter. Half life is used for anything that is modeled with exponential decay: energy systems, medicine effectiveness, caffeine in a body, oscillations.
by ChrisLomont 5y ago
Doesn't matter. Half life is used for anything that is modeled with exponential decay: energy systems, medicine effectiveness, caffeine in a body, oscillations.
So if the essence of a thing breaks down, and the model for it is exponential decay, then it has a half life.
Thus DNA has a half life, just as the paper in Nature, one of the premier scientific publications in the world, demonstrates.
- morelisp 5y agoNonetheless, "atomic radioactive decay exists and DNA is made of atoms" is not the reason DNA has its half-life, as your post claimed.
- ChrisLomont 5y agoNo where did I claim the decay is the one used in the article, in fact, my first sentence is "Read the page. Half life is precisely defined." I was well aware of their definition. My explanation was to point out that even if you don't like the definition in the article, that there are other valid ways to define half-life for atoms and complex molecules.