Is there something special about the halfway point? Does the decay happen at a steady pace or exponentially?
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In broad terms, any element’s ‘full-life’ is infinite.
Like that thought experiment about only being able to travel half the distance between two points (which would require an infinite amount of travels), the “half-life” can only decay half of the element at a time. And unlike the thought experiment, it does not take less and less time as the amount gets smaller so it really is improbable to get from the start and end up at 0 in conventional physics (exceptions exist outside of ELI5).
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