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Cake day: June 9th, 2023

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  • Yeah, that’s more or less what I meant. It’s not destroyed as in disappears, it’s converted into energy, and… goes away, but that’s still something.
    I also realize we’d get less mass, some of it was blown away due to radiation after all, but the post implies that 100% disappears after decay.
    Original post should probably not be taken too seriously, but this is this time when it was so wrong it made me uncomfortable :)


  • Matter is not destroyed, during radioactive decay some of the “matter” is released as energy in form of radiation.
    I’d like to also point out that nuclear decay doesn’t “evaporate” matter. It’s reduced to stable state, which might be different isotope of the same element, or element with lower amount of electrons.
    Another point that I’d like to point out is that I’m not a physicist, and this is oversimplification, and probably wrong at some points, but that’s my rough understanding. I am absolutely sure though, that you’ll not get half mass of whatever you had before after one half life cycle.





  • It is amazing to see it grow right before my eyes. Every day there is more communities, and every day I see bigger upvote counts on posts.
    It is clear that even if majority of Reddit users stay there, Lemmy is not going anywhere. I’m honestly hoping that we’re going to hit a critical mass that will allow us to steadily grow even after things settle with Reddit. Maybe we already did :)

    Safe to say, I’m not going back.