First timer, just to get that out there.. I've been contemplating the mysterious mechanism that triggers a nucleus to decay. Now I have no evidence as this is just an idea to be expanded upon, but the thought is that inside the nucleus of a radioactive atom there exists an as of yet undiscovered partical that carries strong and/or weak nuclear forces. As the unsuspecting atom travels through space/time flowing through the dark matter that has amassed around galixies throughout the cosmos, the as-of-yet-named partical crashes into a partical of dark matter annihilating both particals and releasing dark energy along with alphas betas and gamma radiation. Radioactive decay thus remains constant(here, engulfed in dark matter) yet still precisely unpredictable for dark matter is still absolutely unmeasurable by us.. An experiment proving the correlation between dark matter and radioactive decay could be performed if we ever make it to intergalactic space. Once there, one could observe the rate of decay. Since there wouldn't be much of anything in that region of space, the decay should slow down dramatically as there would be no collisions between dark matter and mystery partical.. I could be dead wrong and proven so within the first comment but until then ponder away! I really hope this thread doesn't get deleted..
