Familiar examples of other such processes transforming energy from the Big Bang include nuclear decay, in which energy is released which was originally " stored " in heavy isotopes, such as uranium and thorium.
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Other examples are colliding galaxies G, stars or comets, nuclear decay or the last year discovered Higgs Boson or an abstract system HB, as nucleon decay insufficiently treated in science, the internet and world press.
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Once irradiated, the sample is left for a specific decay period, then placed into a detector, which will measure the nuclear decay according to either the emitted particles, or more commonly, the emitted gamma rays.
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Food irradiation is essentially a non-nuclear technology; it relies on the use of ionizing radiation which may be generated by accelerators for electrons and conversion into bremsstrahlung, but which may use also gamma-rays from nuclear decay.
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The interesting observation is that " y " for mirror nuclei is on the order of the value of " y " for neutron decay while non-mirror nuclear decays tend to be an order of magnitude less.
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These massive stars triggered the reionization process and are believed to have created many of the heavy elements in the early Universe, which, through nuclear decay, create lighter elements, allowing the cycle of nucleosynthesis to continue longer.
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In the simplest versions of the theory, gauge bosons are massless, but it is also possible to construct versions in which they have mass, as is the case for the gauge bosons that transmit the nuclear decay forces.
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The underground laboratory, which opened in 1989, with its low background radiation is used for experiments in particle and nuclear physics, including the study of neutrinos, high-energy cosmic rays, dark matter, nuclear decay, as well as geology, and biology.
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The helium nuclei that form 10-12 % of cosmic rays, are also usually of much higher energy than those produced by nuclear decay processes, and when encountered in space, are thus able to traverse the human body and dense shielding.
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That's the whole point of the Schroedinger's Cat exercise : when you take quantum-level phenomena ( like nuclear decay ) and attempt to understand it as one would understand an earthquake or the Tunguska effect, you are basically " doing it wrong ".
