So in fact, if they senesce just a tiny tiny bit over time -- that is, if their half-life gets shorter, very very slowly -- we wouldn't actually be able to tell that this was happening in the time that we took our measurements, because the acceleration in
So in fact, if they senesce just a tiny tiny bit over time -- that is, if their half-life gets shorter, very very slowly -- we wouldn't actually be able to tell that this was happening in the time that we took our measurements, because the acceleration in
所以在事实上，如果它们随时间衰老得只那么一点点，—就是说，如果它们的半衰期缩短得非常慢—那么我们实际上不可能知道，在我们测量期间发生过衰减，因为原子衰减的速率加速得太小，统计学上检测不出（当然，是相对于不曾衰减的数目而言，不曾衰减的原子数目总是在减少）。