alt Hacker NewsI agree. Moreover, I'm not sure if it's the same team, but in a similar experiment while removing all the other effects, they discovered that Xenon 124 is radioactive, but the half life is super long and no one had seen it before. https://xenonexperiment.org/observing-the-rarest-decay-proce...
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cogman10 • yesterday at 6:55 PM
Makes me wonder if all atoms with 2+ nucleus elements (protons and neutrons) are radioactive but the halflife is so far out as to make something we'll never detect.
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pfdietz • yesterday at 7:58 PM
Those double beta decays are also interesting because they can probe whether the neutrino is a Majorana particle.
That's a pretty cool discovery in its own right.