Rare oxygen isotope detected at last — and it defies expectations
www.nature.com
Oxygen-28 might prompt physicists to revamp theories of how atomic nuclei are structured.
  • Lvxferre@lemmy.mlEnglish
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    1 year ago

    For now it’s just to know better how the universe works. Perhaps in the future some application of this sort of knowledge pops up, but for that we’ll need far more than just “uh, weird, it didn’t undergo beta decay”.