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My name is Jerome aka the sane environmentalist I have recently been addressing and educating people about fukushima daiichi in japan and find that nuclear physics is challenging. I ran across this forum while i was investigating the Wigner effect for a you-tube video. you can search for the...

or is it like the conservation of energy wherein something will maintain its energy level only if interacted with. ie with no atoms to strike a neutron will continue on indefinitely at the same energy. yes?

this is really basic I know but i would like to know if a neutron ,positron or alpha particle of a given energy will lose energy and velocity as it travels through space would atmospheric molecules have a significant effect as well on velocity/energy level. and if they do lose energy what form...