(August 4, 2013 at 4:02 pm)Rahul Wrote:(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?
No, you can not predict when a particular atom will decay.
Skepticism is not a position; it is an approach to claims.
Science is not a subject, but a method.
Science is not a subject, but a method.
