02-14-2021, 02:53 AM
(02-13-2021, 04:42 PM)Bear Wrote: So far, I've only heard of this "Island of Stability" in terms of prospects for creating heavy elements whose half lives are measured in microseconds rather than nanoseconds. As such, I wouldn't expect to find them anywhere in sufficient quantities to be a "substance" as opposed to an isolated scattering of short-lived atoms.
Unless people are Just Plain Wrong about what the island of stability means, it would seem to me that anyone experiencing time at the same rate we do would find them too ephemeral to be valuable.
Not microseconds. Potentially up to tens(hundreds?) of million years.