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[–] beetsnuami@slrpnk.net 16 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Well… that, and one nucleus splitting in half wouldn‘t start a chain reaction in a cucumber, and therefore not release a macroscopically noticeable amount of energy.

[–] Ultraviolet@lemmy.world 1 points 4 days ago

To put into perspective just how trivial it is, the actual amount of energy of splitting a single nucleus is on the order of picojoules. The shock from touching a doorknob is a few millijoules, literally millions of times more powerful.