How do you get a gig setting around waiting 16 septillion years to watch a neutrino get recaptured?
I don’t know. But if you find one, see if you can talk them into hiring me too, okay?
However, these billionaires tend to be pretty crafty old guys; instead of hoping for the best and hiring some physicists to watch a microgram of xenon-124 for septillions or octillions of years, they paid them to study three metric tons of it for a couple of years, damn them! Sigh... Oh, well, I guess that’s why they’re rich and I’m not.
Each atom has that chance .Since you have around 10 ^ 23 atoms in a typical handful that means a few decays every second. I know with Bismuth they had to watch a sample for about a week to even see one decay.
Just hope it doesn't happen when you're on a restroom break.
That’s why we need open borders - only undocumented physicists will do the work!