Thursday, April 18, 2019

physics

The Quest to Find One of the Most Elusive Particle Decays in the Universe



Transmuting one element into another (usually gold, of course) was the stuff of fevered dreams and fanciful imaginations for alchemists way back in the day. It turns out that nature does it all the time without any help from us — though not usually into gold.
This natural alchemy, called radioactivity, happens when an element decays and in doing so transforms into another element./.../

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