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Originally posted by Turq1
Is there a better source?
I wouldn't be too caught up in it if it's only one site saying that.
Peter Sturrock, Stanford emeritus professor of applied physics and an expert on the inner workings of the sun, told the researchers to look for evidence that the changes in radioactive decay vary with the rotation of the sun. The answer was yes, suggesting that neutrinos are responsible. But how could the nebulous neutrino, which does not interact with normal matter, be affecting decay rates?
No one knows. It might be a previously unknown particle instead.
Though disaster movies would have you believe otherwise, we should not yet worry about solar neutrinos warming the core of the Earth. But perhaps we should worry that our understanding of the sun -- and perhaps our understanding of nuclear physics in general -- is a lot weaker than we thought.
Originally posted by byteshertz
What??? Is this science finally admitting there is a strong possibility that their whole theory on radioactive decay and therefore radio carbon dating could be wrong?
Are they finally admitting that their system that told us how old the earth was could possibly be wrong, that radioactive decay is not linear and therefore the possibility that ancient cultures and religions had it right is a possibility?
Originally posted by OverMan
reply to post by michaelwpayton
You talkin to me? Are you talkin to me!?
He/she said they were speaking to everyone so....
Ever hear of DEVACHAN Pilgrim?
No? That is because you do not know the well from which the waters sprang that now fill your cup to overflowing.....
Devachan is as we perceive it to be and there is no other thing but to be one again in nirvana with the unknowable cause of everything and all....
It is as it has always been..... to be, or not to be, is the only question.
Originally posted by michaelwpayton
reply to post by Watts
Younger, When you increase the rate of decay, you decrease the half-life. if it were a measuring stick, it means a yard just became a foot and the football field isn't as big as you thought.edit on 2011/4/21 by michaelwpayton because: (no reason given)