Ever wonder if reality is real? Technetium does—a lot. A five-minute convo with her is enough to send you into an
existential crisis. What if the world is a simulation? What if everything you have, and everyone you love, is nothing
but a few lines of code in a vast alien machine churning out artificial universes one after the other, and it’s all
fake, all meaningless, and oh lord oh lord nothing is real, the screams, the SCREAMS—
Anyway, Tech also wants to be a medical researcher! Let’s hope it’s not in psychiatry.
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Tc
solid radioactive metal | transition metals
lightest element whose isotopes are all radioactive; commonly used in medical imaging; name comes from the Greek technetos, meaning “artificial,” as it was the first element to be artificially produced