That's better than a single finger of accolades and a half-life of grief.
IN fact, let us consider: what IS the half-life of grief?
GRIEFONIUM: Chemical overviewGrief is the colloquial name of the element Griefonium, first isolated around 3000 BC but not identified and discovered as a chemical element until 1981.
Its symbol is Gf, and its atomic number is 193. It's highly radioactive, yet it does have a stable isotope with 231
protons:
424Gf.
Errata:
GRIEFONIUM: Chemical overview.
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Its symbol is Gf, and its atomic number is 193. It's highly radioactive, yet it does have a stable isotope with 231 neutrons and 193 protons: 424Gf. |
The half-life
t½ of this stable isotope is ∞ (theoretically). For obvious reasons, this is difficult to demonstrate in a laboratory.
Exposure to
424Gf has extremely deleterious effects - sometimes permanent.
The application of Au, Pt, Ag, and one heck of a lot of Ni or Cu has produced noticeable effects in reducing the effects of Gf very rapidly in some cases - but almost certainly where an unstable isotope such as
425Gf or
426Gf is present rather than
424Gf.
In some instances, placing someone who has been exposed to
424Gf in the vicinity of a puppy, or a kitten, or applying repeated doses of hugging, can be efficacious in this regard.
Dr Johnson recommends that, if one waits until Gf has been digested (which presupposes that it has been taken orally), the remains of it can be dissipated by amusement.
Prof. Shakespeare states that by allowing Gf to be expressed through words, we can prevent it from "knitting up" (encompassing with fibres) the heart and causing it irreparable damage.
Curiously, Prof. Shakespeare also writes in a paper (Henry VI) of an experiment in which a test subject's (Richard Plantagenet, Duke of York) refusal to weep was causal in Gf's half-life remaining undiminished and its effect upon him being maintained at full strength.
In general, it is observable that time (
t) cures the effect of grief, but to a differing degree in every individual case, and with the period of (
t) different in each case.