How are we able to measure the half life of uranium-238 if it’s 4.5 billion years?

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Tried looking it up and it got complicated real quick.

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It‘s the duration until half of the sample decayed. You can measure the rate without having to wait the whole half life. It‘s like the speed in your car, you don‘t need to wait an hour to know how many miles/hour you are driving

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