(August 4, 2013 at 11:09 am)Chas Wrote: Untrue. In radioactive decay, there is no known cause for a particular atom to decay. All of our measurements are statistical. Listen to a Geiger counter.
Instability causes the atom to decay.
We know why they decay. You could throw a theoretical atom at a physicist and he could predict how fast it would decay based on it's properties.
Isn't it Lead that is the highest element that is completely stable?
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