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Anonymous at Fri, 15 Nov 2024 11:37:43 UTC No. 16475963
if atom desintegration is a purely random process, what are the chances all the atoms in my body desintegrate at once causing my sudden death?
Anonymous at Fri, 15 Nov 2024 12:07:59 UTC No. 16475980
>>16475963
Nearly all the atoms in your body are stable. This means we can only use a lower bound on their decay. Most of your body is water, which is used in the SuperKamiokande experiment. They give the lower bound on half life of a proton to be 10^34 years. This means that the chance for a single atom in your body to decay in your lifetime is less than 2^(-10^(-34)). This is already astronomically small. Assuming you weigh roughly 100kg and you’re made of water, you about 10^4 moles of atoms in you, or 10^27 atoms. This means that the chance of them all decaying at once is at most (2^(-10^34))^(10^27) = 2^(-10^51).
This is roughly 10^(-10^50). So the chance of you decaying all it once is less than a number with 10^50 zeros after the decimal point. Basically nothing.
Anonymous at Fri, 15 Nov 2024 12:54:10 UTC No. 16476018
>>16475963
>what are the chances all the atoms in my body desintegrate at once causing my sudden death?
It either happens or it doesn't so approximately 50%
Anonymous at Fri, 15 Nov 2024 13:17:49 UTC No. 16476046
>>16475963
Why half life of Uranium is different if it's close together then?
Stop guessing start learning at Fri, 15 Nov 2024 16:20:59 UTC No. 16476364
>>16475963
Random is just coded language for unknown variables or unmeasurable quantities to do issues with observation.
Kinda like "random mutation" in evolutionary Biology.
Its just cope for not knowing
Anonymous at Sun, 17 Nov 2024 04:36:11 UTC No. 16478573
>>16475963
>causing my sudden death?
100%. People die of sudden death every day.