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Speed of light VS 1 Second

Ville502
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1 hour ago, John Cuthber said:

Strictly, that's also true of Rb- you just need to wait about 10^12 years for the unstable one to decay.

Rb-87 has a half life of about 49 billion years. In a 1g sample of Rb that’s of order 1000 decays a second.

 

But that’s not the issue. It’s interactions that give a frequency shift, such as collisions, and having a second isotope around is a source of such interactions. And Rb has two naturally-occurring isotopes.

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