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How is the mousetrap simulation similar to fission chain reaction?
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∙ 9y ago
Nuclear fission is a chain reaction, meaning that the first atom to split causes more to split, which cause still more, exponentially increasing. The mousetraps work the same way: once one is set off, then it can set off others, each of which can set off still more, exponentially increasing until all of the traps have been sprung.
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