I think this is a good, serious discussion to have. I do see many these days like to express doubt of religions and the Bible for suggesting the Earth may not be as old as many would like to think but I think we should look at the process people arrive to the idea that Earth is hundreds of millions or even billions years old ? Let's take a look at radiometric dating:
**** TO BE CLEAR - I AM NOT SAYING THE EARTH IS XYZ amount of years old - I am expressing doubt that I have over the accuracy of using Radiometric dating to measure the age of the earth - If I say something that is completely incorrect or that you think is wrong - feel free to express your thoughts in the thread - I am hoping we can have a productive debate/discussion on the real age of the earth ****
Radiometric dating -
**** TO BE CLEAR - I AM NOT SAYING THE EARTH IS XYZ amount of years old - I am expressing doubt that I have over the accuracy of using Radiometric dating to measure the age of the earth - If I say something that is completely incorrect or that you think is wrong - feel free to express your thoughts in the thread - I am hoping we can have a productive debate/discussion on the real age of the earth ****
Radiometric dating -
- a method of dating geological or archeological specimens by determining the relative proportions of particular radioactive isotopes present in a sample.
I think in layman's terms the best way to describe this is with the following -
I pick up a rock and take it to a lab - I know that something in this rock decays into something else over XYZ period of time - so I know this rock is of this age because it has this amount of isotopes (parents) and this amount of daughters (products) - I do a few math calculations and voila! The Earth is however old I calculate it to be
What issues can arrive from using this method ?
1) Let's say I am a member of the NWO and hate all religions and want an easy method to disprove all of their existences among normies
What is stopping me from picking up a rock - taking it to a lab - filling it with decay products of the parent isotope that follow the half-life decay rates I say to make it look accurate - slapping it on a museum shelf or under a microscope for normies to look at and saying -
"See ? The Earth is XYZ years old because of the amount of decay products on this rock - don't believe any religion those theories are just ridiculous haha"
What is stopping a person from doing the above ? The NWO clearly own the museums as the museums are already hiding a lot of stuff from history
Even if other people pick up rocks from other parts of the world that are younger to "prove me wrong" - people seem to trust the oldest prediction told by a rock, therefore, it seems my argument will hold more value.
NASA headed towards giant golden asteroid that could make everyone on Earth a billionaire
NASA is eyeing up a nearby asteroid that contains enough gold to make everyone on Earth a billionaire.www.foxnews.com
2) As we know - MANY of the earth's elements are present in space and arrive on earth all the time - asteroids and things of this nature
Let's assume the Earth is 50 years old and an asteroid that is 120 years old falls on earth in a forest filled with uranium - let's say a person picks up a bunch of the rocks in the forest and says -
"well gee all these rocks in the forest say the earth is 50 years old except for this small cluster of rocks here that say 120 years old - I guess I'll just go with the oldest rock in the population and say the earth is 120 years old - the newer rocks probably just got here more recently"
What exactly is preventing the above situation from happening ?
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And last but not least - the decay of an isotope can be altered as well as seems to be admittedly completely random ?
Can the decay half-life of a radioactive material be changed?
Yes, the decay half-life of a radioactive material can be changed. Radioactive decay happens when an unstable atomic nucleus spontaneously changes ...www.wtamu.edu
Yes, the decay half-life of a radioactive material can be changed. Radioactive decay happens when an unstable atomic nucleus spontaneously changes to a lower-energy state and spits out a bit of radiation. This process changes the atom to a different element or a different isotope. Since radioactive decay is a spontaneous event, you may think that the half-life of the decay process is completely fixed and cannot be altered by outside influences. However, this statement is not completely true.
First of all, it is worth pointing out that the time when an individual radioactive atom decays is completely random. It is impossible to predict when an individual radioactive atom will decay. The half-life of a certain type of atom does not describe the exact amount of time that every single atom experiences before decaying. Rather, the half-life describes the average amount of time it takes for a large group of amounts to reach the point where half of the atoms have decayed.
The half-life of a radioactive material can be changed using time dilation effects. According to relativity, time itself can be slowed down. Everything that experiences time can therefore be given a longer effective lifetime if time is dilated. This can be done in two ways. Traveling at a speed close to the speed of light causes time to slow down significantly, relative to the stationary observer. For instance, a number of radioactive atoms shot through a tube at high speed in the lab will have their half-life lengthened relative to the lab because of time dilation. This effect has been verified many times using particle accelerators. Time can also be dilated by applying a very strong gravitational field. For instance, placing a bunch of radioactive atoms near a black hole will also extend their half-life relative to the distant observer because of time dilation.
The half-life of radioactive decay can also be altered by changing the state of the electrons surrounding the nucleus. In a type of radioactive decay called "electron capture", the nucleus absorbs one of the atom's electrons and combines it with a proton to make a neutron and a neutrino. The more the wavefunctions of the atom's electrons overlap with the nucleus, the more able the nucleus is to capture an electron. Therefore, the half-life of an electron-capture radioactive decay mode depends slightly on what state the atom's electrons are in. By exciting or deforming the atom's electrons into states that overlap less with the nucleus, the half-life can be reduced. Since the chemical bonding between atoms involves the deformation of atomic electron wavefunctions, the radioactive half-life of an atom can depend on how it is bonded to other atoms. Simply by changing the neighboring atoms that are bonded to a radioactive isotope, we can change its half-life. However, the change in half-life accomplished in this way is typically small. For instance, a study performed by B. Wang et al and published in the European Physical Journal A was able to measure that the electron capture half-life of beryllium-7 was made 0.9% longer by surrounding the beryllium atoms with palladium atoms.
In addition to altering the chemical bonds, the half-life can be altered by simply removing electrons from the atom. In the extreme limit of this approach, all of the electrons can be ripped off of a radioactive atom. For such an ion, there are no longer any electrons available to capture, and therefore the half-life of the electron capture radioactive decay mode becomes infinite. Certain radioactive isotopes that can only decay via the electron capture mode (such as rubidium-83) can be made to never decay by ripping off all the electrons. Other types of radioactive decay besides electron capture have also been found to have the decay half-life depend on the state of the surrounding electrons, but the effects are smaller. The change in half-life due to changing the electron environment is generally very small, typically much less than 1%."
People like to say a meteor/catastrophic event wiped out the dinosaurs - wouldn't an event like this strongly affect the decay rate of nearly all isotopes on the planet - expressing doubt over the accuracy of using the Radiometric dating method to calculate the age of the earth
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