[split] Radiometric Dating

[Creatard]

Are you suggesting that if daughter isotopes are present at the time that is gleaned from the tests, then those isotopes will throw off the count and add years to the results, and instead if they were accounted for, the dates would be much more recent?

If so, and we were somehow able to discern the daughter isotopes present at the beginning of the process, then the issue would still be unclear, I would think. A daughter isotope present at the beginning process would still suggest a process of decay, and the age would have to be calculated further back.

Yes, I am suggesting that daughter isotopes would create an "older" age for the test. The problem is there is not a certain way to discern the daughter isotopes present at the beginning of the process. That is why I brought up isochrones, because it is supposed to account for that unknown, but we always have to assume the amount of sister isotopes are uniform in their respective rock layers. They basically created a graph where we don't know three instead of two of the variables. Dr. Jim Mason wrote a good piece on the subject. I'll try to find it for you.