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Coragyps
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Message 26 of 40 (518463)
08-06-2009 8:35 AM
Reply to: Message 25 by Kitsune
08-06-2009 3:29 AM


Re: Half-life questions
That first study on strontium 92 has a spread of 5% between values, and with a half-life of under three hours, that isotope is 1) rare and 2) REALLY HOT to handle. Errors in decay rate measurement for things like carbon-14 will be smaller.
And 5% error in half-lives fails to be much comfort for a YEC, anyway. They need five million percent errors.
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Coragyps
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Message 31 of 40 (518498)
08-06-2009 10:48 AM
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08-06-2009 10:05 AM


Re: Half-life questions
I think a good response to this would be to show that we can see isotopes decaying in ancient starlight -- I'm assuming we can, though I haven't researched this yet.
We can and have - type 1A supernovae show the same rate of decay of nickel-56 to cobalt-56 to iron as we see right here on earth, even out to a few billion years ago. Wikipedia will get you started on the details.

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