Eli5: Why does a radioactive material still radiate at absolute zero temperature?

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Eli5: Why does a radioactive material still radiate at absolute zero temperature?

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Counter-question:

Does it? Are you actually asking to explain something you know to be true for sure?

One, we can’t reach absolute zero. Two, if we did anyway and a decay happens, it’s immediately not absolute zero any more, there’s particles flying around.

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