All unstable systems, no matter how unstable they are, REQUIRE an external disturbance to release their energy.
A Brick on top of a tall building can be said to be unstable, but the brick will NOT fall untill something has pushed the brick off the building.
Same thing for radioactive atoms. They do have an odd combination of nucleus, but WHAT is disturbing the nucleus at the time it is releasing it's radioactivity ?
Is there some sort of quantum fluctuation in the universe that upsets unstable atoms into releasing their radiactivity ?
2006-08-08
12:52:16
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