Blissful_Altruism
Blissful_Altruism t1_ja0e8sn wrote
Reply to comment by [deleted] in Water on Earth is not Constant. Why ? by ItsDivyamGupta
> Rutherford had found out that the nucleus of the nitrogen atom could be disintegrated by firing fast alpha particles into nitrogen. He asked Blackett to use a cloud chamber to find visible tracks of this disintegration, and by 1925, he had taken 23,000 photographs showing 415,000 tracks of ionized particles. Eight of these were forked, and this showed that the nitrogen atom-alpha particle combination had formed an atom of fluorine, which then disintegrated into an isotope of oxygen 17 and a proton.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patrick_Blackett
It is 100% possible but is an extremely, very very rare occurrence.
Blissful_Altruism t1_j408are wrote
Reply to Drifting by The_Tree_Beard
Ah, so this is the house in the ocean I’ve been hearing about
Blissful_Altruism t1_ja0fp3o wrote
Reply to comment by vasopressin334 in Water on Earth is not Constant. Why ? by ItsDivyamGupta
This is one of those things that sounds concerning until you remember it’s been happening for billions of years so clearly it’s not an issue