I mean, I get the repercussions, but if they are so insanely small, how do you pull it apart? How do you only get one at a time done too – there must be bazillions in any one area so do they split a specific one or it’s just the first one along?
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Many are split at once. The trick is to have a big atom, and hit it with the fast moving smaller atom. And it out when you split one, it splits into fast moving smaller atoms. They slow down pretty quick though – but if there are enough more of the original bigger atom in the vicinity, they could be hit and split and create more small…. And so on. The trick then is twofold: have enough big atoms together that when one splits it’s more likely to hit others and repeat the process. And get the process started.
And starting the process is just a matter of waiting, because atoms sometime split naturally. The bigger they are, the more likely that’ll happen.
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