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Thanks for the correction on nuclear state. It's hard to imagine anything having absolutely no state - but I guess a nucleus is not a "thing" as such, even if s

Thanks for the correction on nuclear state. It's hard to imagine anything having absolutely no state - but I guess a nucleus is not a "thing" as such, even if surrounded by lots of similar non-things. Does state not subsist in the total assembled mass in my example of near-critical collection?

nonrandomstring 3y ago
Just answering myself after some reading today. No, not really Because fission caused by free neutrons (which are rare) is something different from more common "spontaneous" radio-decay. That does beg the question; what is the cause that we don't yet understand, what lies behind little bits of the universe falling apart?