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| Feb 10, 2020 at 9:16 | comment | added | Anders Sandberg | An unbound alpha particle can also tunnel into the nucleus, reducing entropy. It is just that it is way less likely since the set of microstates sending it close to the nucleus is tiny compared to the total set, while the bound case is essentially a single micro and macro state. | |
| Feb 10, 2020 at 8:53 | history | answered | anna v | CC BY-SA 4.0 |