• Oinks@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    11 hours ago

    I can at least think of a few counterexamples:

    • Cats live longer than dogs.
    • Small stars live longer than large stars (by dramatic amounts).
    • Black holes larger than the ~10^10 kg mark shown here live a lot longer than any other object with the same mass. A hypothetical moon mass black hole can most likely outlive every single star in the universe.
    • Protons are smaller than anything in this chart yet are believed to decay over an extremely long time scale (>10^34 years).
    • Even smaller particles like electrons likely live forever.