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[-] [email protected] 15 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

There are carbon atoms splitting (decaying) inside of you right now. This is why carbon dating works. Do you notice them?

Yeah, unless the atom in question is neutronium, you won't notice and if it is neutronium, you have all kinds of issues even without splitting it.

[-] [email protected] 10 points 1 week ago

This reminds me of people freaking out over particle accelerators. Will it create a black hole????

Only they don't know that the Earth is regularly bombarded with high energy particles from space. The reason we need particle accelerators is so that we can accelerate the desired types of particles to the desired speed, and aim them at the desired place.

[-] [email protected] 10 points 1 week ago

Most people have no idea just how little they actually know about the world around them.

Hell, most of what the average person "knows" is just made up assumptions they had about things they knew little to nothing about and subsequently internalized those assumptions without actually researching if they were correct.

Humans are hella prone to trapping ourselves in fallacious thought without even knowing we do it. It's just how our brains have evolved to work through inductive reasoning.

[-] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

There are carbon atoms splitting (decaying) inside of you right now... Do you notice them?

Silly talk: Idk... I sometimes get this weird, tingling feeling through my whole body. You think it might be carbon decay?

[-] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Not unless you feel it all the time (and even if you do, the energy released is not enough to activate nerve endings).

[-] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

Maybe it's neuropathy? Maybe it's Maybelline?

[-] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

Nah, pretty sure they were born with it 🤷

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