• Tattorack@lemmy.world
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    13 hours ago

    I mean… The chance of that happening is incredibly low, but… It’s not zero.

    Have fun stressing out of cutting things. Any cut you make can be the one low chance cut when you accidentally split an atom. :)

    • T156@lemmy.world
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      7 hours ago

      It is zero. You split atoms all the time, thanks to the radioactive carbon-14 in our bodies, from nuclear testing.

      A nuclear bomb goes off because a lot of atoms split all at once, which causes a whole lot more atoms to then split. But that requires a critical mass. It doesn’t just happen on its own.

    • AllHailTheSheep@sh.itjust.works
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      11 hours ago

      sorry, but the chances are actually zero. it takes a lot more force and specialized conditions to split an atom than a knife