Dark matter detector reveals material with longest half-life ever – 18 sextillion years

Although the many experiments searching for evidence of dark matter have yet to turn up any solid proof of the stuff yet, they are making other amazing discoveries. The XENON1T experiment has now revealed the longest half-life ever seen in an element, which is far, far longer than the age of the universe.

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Category: Physics

Tags:

• Dark Matter
• Elementary particles
• Particle physics
• Physics
• Radioactivity
• Rice University

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