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I have to ask: given the vanishingly small half-life of these elements (order of milliseconds) and tiny, tiny number of atoms produced ... what is the point of
by ur-whale 2y ago
I have to ask: given the vanishingly small half-life of these elements (order of milliseconds) and tiny, tiny number of atoms produced ... what is the point of these experiments ? What can they possibly teach us ?
- im3w1l 2y agoYou never know where the next breakthrough will come from, but clearly some places are more likely and some less. In this case I guess something that could happen is that theories predict the element will last for say 1 femtosecond but experiments show it only lasts for 0.95 femtoseconds, and then the disparity helps shed light on quantum chromodynamics or something.