https://xkcd.com/2860

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Unlike an Iron Age collapse, a Bronze Age collapse releases energy, since copper and tin are past the iron peak on the curve of binding energy.

  • SkyeStarfall@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
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    11 months ago

    The skull presumably represents the finality of such a decay, given that the end stage of human decay leaves behind a skeleton, something that does not exist in nucleons. [citation needed]