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All you have is cheap personal attacks?
You claimed that the electrons were man-made. I told you that there was no such thing as a man-made electron. That's a simple fact and a clear factual refutation of your nonsense. Even if you care to describe some other part of the comment (intended to make you pay attention) as an "attack" (personal or otherwise... cheap or otherwise)... it's clearly not "all I have".
That electron was probably part of a hydrogen atom back at the beginning of time... then it was part of a helium atom... then through many nuclear reactions over billions of years until that same electron was part of a uranium235 atom. Then one day in a reactor, a friendly neutron came along and split that atom into Cs134, a rubidium atom (IIRC - which, btw, is where the Strontium comes from), some mass conversion to energy... and a couple more neutrons to keep the party going.
Throughout this multi-billion-year lifespan... it has been the same electron. It doesn't matter whether mankind was involved in whatever atom it's in today... it's an electron. And if it's emitted from that atom (whether natural or "man-made"
... it's a beta particle.
The impact of that beta particle on living tissue has nothing whatsoever to do with the atom that the electron last had a relationship with... not even a little bit. All that matters is what it is (an electron) and the amount of energy that it's carrying.
It doesn't matter even a little bit that CS137 didn't exist in the pacific before mankind put it there... because chemically it's identical to natural cesium that has been there... and radiologically, its beta emissions are identical to any other beta- emission with the same energy.
You claimed that the electrons were man-made. I told you that there was no such thing as a man-made electron. That's a simple fact and a clear factual refutation of your nonsense. Even if you care to describe some other part of the comment (intended to make you pay attention) as an "attack" (personal or otherwise... cheap or otherwise)... it's clearly not "all I have".
That electron was probably part of a hydrogen atom back at the beginning of time... then it was part of a helium atom... then through many nuclear reactions over billions of years until that same electron was part of a uranium235 atom. Then one day in a reactor, a friendly neutron came along and split that atom into Cs134, a rubidium atom (IIRC - which, btw, is where the Strontium comes from), some mass conversion to energy... and a couple more neutrons to keep the party going.
Throughout this multi-billion-year lifespan... it has been the same electron. It doesn't matter whether mankind was involved in whatever atom it's in today... it's an electron. And if it's emitted from that atom (whether natural or "man-made"
... it's a beta particle.
The impact of that beta particle on living tissue has nothing whatsoever to do with the atom that the electron last had a relationship with... not even a little bit. All that matters is what it is (an electron) and the amount of energy that it's carrying.
It doesn't matter even a little bit that CS137 didn't exist in the pacific before mankind put it there... because chemically it's identical to natural cesium that has been there... and radiologically, its beta emissions are identical to any other beta- emission with the same energy.
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