According to this calculation, for every ten degrees celsius, it doubles the rate at which something will happen. So that's why food spoils faster if it's not in the refrigerator. The moment you go nuclear, then all the things that apply to atoms and molecules no longer apply. Whole other sets of forces dominate in the nuclear regime. And so if you cool things, the nucleus. Don't give a rat's ass. It will still decay at exactly the rate that you had measured for it at any other temperature. You got to get out more. You know it. Now you embarrass me, because i want to tell you thet i don't know any mexican.
What happens when three black holes collide? On this episode, Neil deGrasse Tyson and comic co-host Chuck Nice explore even more cosmic collisions in space, in the quantum realm, and more!
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