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Rare oxygen isotope detected at last – and it defies expectations (www.nature.com)
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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

As someone who only barely understood what you said but is mighty impressed with your knowledge on the matter, what practical use might this have? Could this lead to some invention or project improving or is it just neat to know more about how the universe works?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 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".