eli5 / How do we know the half life of (or even that it is radioactive) Bismuth-209 when it is literally longer than the age of the universe by several orders of magnitude

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eli5 / How do we know the half life of (or even that it is radioactive) Bismuth-209 when it is literally longer than the age of the universe by several orders of magnitude

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If you measure how fast a car travels for 1 mile, you can easily calculate how long it will take to drive 1 million miles if it keeps that same speed. Same kind of thing

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