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Re:Physicists may now have a way to make element 120 by exe34 on Wednesday July 24, 2024 @11:16AM (#41057938)
that's probably a lot higher than the sort of atomic number we can realistically reach in the lab?
Re:Physicists may now have a way to make element 120 by philipov on Wednesday July 24, 2024 @11:22AM (#41058002)
Oh, it's immensely massive compared to anything that's likely to possibly exist as an element. But in proving something is finite, it doesn't matter if we overshoot by a million million percent, all we have to do is establish any bound at all. We don't have to engage with the question of what we can do in a lab, because the question only requires any theoretical limit to exist.

It may be difficult to predict just how far we can go in a lab, but the existence of black holes means there must be some limit.