{"id":90716,"date":"2019-05-14T15:22:56","date_gmt":"2019-05-14T22:22:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/05\/half-life-of-xenon-124-is-about-18-sextillion-years"},"modified":"2019-05-22T18:05:39","modified_gmt":"2019-05-23T01:05:39","slug":"half-life-of-xenon-124-is-about-18-sextillion-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/05\/half-life-of-xenon-124-is-about-18-sextillion-years","title":{"rendered":"Half-life of xenon 124 is about 18 sextillion years"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/half-life-of-xenon-124-is-about-18-sextillion-years3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A new finding puts the half-life of xenon 124 close to 18 sextillion years.<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s 18,000,000,000,000,000,000,000.<\/p>\n<p>Existing theory predicts the isotope\u2019s radioactive decay has a half-life that surpasses the age of the universe \u201cby many orders of magnitude,\u201d but no evidence of the process has appeared until now.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.futurity.org\/xenon-124-neutrios-isotopes-physics-2045552-2\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.futurity.org\/xenon-124-neutrios-isotopes-physics-2045552-2\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><\/p>\n<div style=\"clear:both;\">Read more<\/div>\n<p><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.futurity.org\/xenon-124-neutrios-isotopes-physics-2045552-2\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new finding puts the half-life of xenon 124 close to 18 sextillion years. That\u2019s 18,000,000,000,000,000,000,000. Existing theory predicts the isotope\u2019s radioactive decay has a half-life that surpasses the age of the universe \u201cby many orders of magnitude,\u201d but no evidence of the process has appeared until now. Read more<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-90716","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-futurism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90716","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=90716"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90716\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":91150,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90716\/revisions\/91150"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=90716"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=90716"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=90716"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}