New Topic Do Lightsticks Fade By HalfLife   On a completely unrelated topic one thing Id love to see addressed in the article on lightsticks at  is the manner in which the light from a Lightstick fades  When greencolored Cyalumetm Lightsticks first came out I remember reading on the package that they glowed with the brightness of a flashlight for the first six hours and with the brightness of a nightlight for the next six hours or similar verbiage this was years ago and my memory is not exact but that was the gist I definitely remember the brightness of the second six hours being compared with a night light From personal experience this fadeoff is both gradual and steady  But its the verbiage itself that fascinates me it seems to me that the one phrase which the company went out of its way to avoid using was halflife Thats understandable  the term is so thoroughly associated in the public perception with nuclear radiation that its usage in this context would surely have been the Kiss of Death to any marketing campaign Nonetheless it seems clear to me that the light indeed does fade according to the halflife principle One thing which the halflife principle dictates is that the radiation  only photons only in this case  can never totally fade to zero and indeed in a dark room a Lightstick can be seen to be still glowing albeit very faintly even after a couple of DAYS  Id love to see mention or discussion of this halflife fading within the main article provided that someone  anyone  can obtain verification of andor a confirmatory reference to it not me folks I wouldnt even BEGIN to know where to look