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Is Uranium Really Doing Its Thing?
The key to answering this question is the same thing that caused all this horror in the atom bomb. uranium is sitting around in all these rocks on doing its thing, right? Over time, it slowly drops proton or neutron here or there. Now if you look at the rock and you see, i don't know, a gram of lead, you know how long it took to make that lead,. That basically means that you have a superaccurate clock hidden inside every rock.
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