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Originally Posted by Herra1  Little bit more about radioactivity.
Uranium (for a arguments sake) is very radioactive material.
Someone digs it from the ground.
And then by pure accidents, few, there is a nuclear atomic plant, just like that, no mathematics involved ? |
Firstly as radioactive materials go, uranium is not that radioactive.
Having said that there was a uranium deposit in Soumi that mangaged to concentrate itself enough to go critical. Environmental engineers have used this deposit to study the transport of the resulting radionucleides through the ground water. The average American back yard contains about a kilogram o uranium.
Of course mathematics is involved, as are graphs, drawings, hammers, drills, machinery, etc and a lot of thought. Mathematics is just a tool.... infact the ideas, laws, theories etc are just like a map.... not totally accurate but good enough to get stuff done.... pretty much like everything else in life.
Trust me, half lives are an observed phenomenon.... nevertheless they are a man made invention. A tool for predicting a physical, biological or chemical behaviour.