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[northwind_gale]

HEY GAIS. GAIS.

I KNOW HOW THE HUMAN SPECIES WILL MEET THEIR DEMISEEEEEEEE.

IGNORE THE SUN BLOWING UP AND THE ICE AGE COMING EARLY AND BLOWING OURSELVES UP WITH NUCLEAR WEAPONS BIT. LETS SAY THAT IN SO-AND-SO AMOUNT OF YEARS WE'LL HAVE FIGURED OUT OURSELVES AN ARTIFICIAL SUN OR SOMETHING. IDK.

Okay, so we all know what a half-life is, right? Let's say something is decaying-a half-life will be the amount of time it takes for that subtance to decrease to half it's original mass/substance whatever.

A proton is extrememely stable. No one has ever seen a proton decay. It is estimated that a proton's half-life is 10³² years, or 100,000,000,000.000,000,000,000,000,000,000 years.

We humans have so many protons in our body that if we lived long enough to be able to have the protons in our body decay, we wouldn't live past that. The sheer amount of radiation would make us drop dead on the spot.

So you know, guys, if the protons that are in our dead bodies keep getting used and reused over the years to new and new people, and we go by the laws of physics that state that new material can't be just created out of nowhere and so thusly the protons in our bodies are all dating from the creation of the universe etc. etc...

GUYS. WE'RE ALL LIVING NUCLEAR BOOOOOOOOOOOOOMBS~

Comments

[digitalstarry.livejournal.com]

*points to display name* Clearly I am actually a lethal rainbow |3

[northwind-gale.livejournal.com]

WE HAVE PROOF THAT RAINBOWS THEMSELVES ARE LETHAL.

...JUST NOT AS LETHAL AS HUMANS, APPARENTLY. OR MAYBE THEY ARE. I NEED TO GO COUNT THEIR PROTONS.

...ffffff~<3

[odontv.livejournal.com]

NO IT'LL BE GODZILLA.

[northwind-gale.livejournal.com]

DOH! HOW COULD I HAVE FORGOTTEN ABOUT HIM?!?!?!?

OR MAYBE THE SHEER AMOUNT OF RADIATION WILL KILL US AND OUR BODIES WILL MUTATE INTO THESE GIANT UNDEAD GODZILLA THINGS. YOU NEVER KNOWWWWWW~

[spinelsoup.livejournal.com]

Dude the radiation of one proton decaying every eleventyhojillion years totally wouldn't kill you. I am confused.

Unless you're talking about entropic heat death or something.

[northwind-gale.livejournal.com]

Nah, I'm talking about them all decaying at once. If we can't make new protons and all the ones currently in use are the ones from the beginning of the universe...

[spinelsoup.livejournal.com]

Ohhhhhhhhhh I see.

... Now this sounds like the plot of some kind of sci-fi movie XD

"Doctor! He's invented a gun that can make all the photons in your body decay at once!"

"He must be stopped!"

[northwind-gale.livejournal.com]

...ogod. Turning humans into active nuclear bombs would be fucking awesome.

[spinelsoup.livejournal.com]

Although to be fair protons probably just decay into positrons and neutral pions so it wouldn't be nuclear strictly speaking since there's no runaway neutron reaction involved. It'd just be a ridiculous burst of positron radiation in all directions.

So basically the PET scan from hell.

[northwind-gale.livejournal.com]

O right. You have a point there. :/ But I will continue to amuse myself with inane thoughts like the end of the universe that I will never live long enough to see but may see in another life somewhere.

...maybe if I get myself reincarnated as a goddess I can watch it from the alternate dimension of heaven-space-time and point and laugh. IDK.

...if we start getting into quarks and stuff like that, will you shoot me?

[spinelsoup.livejournal.com]

Inane thoughts of the end of the universe are indeed amusing :3

... Sounds like a Mormon thing. Also like good tiems.

If by "shoot you" you mean "join your class and sit in rapt attention", then sure :D

/secretly a little bit of a dork for theoretical physics blame Nova

[northwind-gale.livejournal.com]

It's part of the Buddhist religion. Apparently, no one is exempt from rebirth except people who attain Nibbann/Nirvana. Which means that yes, gods do die and get reborn. Eventually. I read in a book that calculated that god(esse)s live one hundred celestial years. One celestial day is one hundred years on Earth. So a god/goddess would live for roughly 3,650,000 Earth years, give or take a few for leap years.

...huh. That's really young, considering the lifespan of our sun and stars and Earth. It's not even a billion.

yay!

omg I love NOVA so hardcore. It's just as big a part of my childhood as Pokemon and Sesame Street (and that's saying a lot, because I still play Pokemon and Sesame Street is one of the few children's "educational" programming I can tolerate nowadays).