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Radioactive decay has always confused me. If it’s a principle rule of the universe that matter cannot be created or destroyed, then where’s the other half of the material go?it has to go somewhere or else it would be ignoring a fundamental law
It doesn't just disappear right, it becomes something else. It converts to a more stable isotope. I think.