(June 9, 2025 at 4:47 pm)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote:

(June 8, 2025 at 9:34 pm)SubtleVirtue Wrote: I agree.

When God tells me to do something... I always question him... as to why, and if I can improve the commission.

I don't blindly obey God.

Sorry to hear about the voices in your head. Have you tried psychiatric care? I’m give to understand that some of the newer meds are pretty effective.

Boru

what do you think of synthetic telepathy?

(June 9, 2025 at 5:51 pm)SubtleVirtue Wrote:

(June 8, 2025 at 10:05 pm)Paleophyte Wrote: By basic reason. Raisin bread can't be older than the raisins withn it and can't be younger than the slices that cur it. The same reasoning works for rocks. Fossils that are between two layers of volcanic material must be younger than the lower layer and older than the upper layer. Date the two layers of volcanic material and you have the age of the fossil bracketed. If the two layers are reasonably close together and your deposition rates aren't aburdly slow, the two ages will be the same, within error.

how do you date a volcanic erruption?

Find the rocks that were erupted. Date the minerals in the rocks. You can get whole-rock ages too, but that's much less reliable and so very 1970s.

(June 9, 2025 at 6:06 pm)Paleophyte Wrote:

(June 9, 2025 at 5:50 pm)SubtleVirtue Wrote: search "connective tissue T-Rex"

BTDT, all I'm seeing is a few scraps of cellular material and biomolecules.

that's plenty of carbon for a c14 test

(June 9, 2025 at 6:08 pm)Paleophyte Wrote:

(June 9, 2025 at 5:42 pm)SubtleVirtue Wrote: matter is 'made of' light because it is a Kerr-induced self-focusing refraction curvature

No. Light is bosonic matter, and you and I are hadronic matter. Opposite branches of reality. The subtle hint is the way that you experience space-time and are not currently and always moving at c.

hadronic matter is made of bosonic matter

(June 9, 2025 at 6:11 pm)Paleophyte Wrote:

(June 9, 2025 at 5:51 pm)SubtleVirtue Wrote: how do you date a volcanic erruption?

Find the rocks that were erupted. Date the minerals in the rocks. You can get whole-rock ages too, but that's much less reliable and so very 1970s.

how do you date those minerals in the rocks that were erupted?

(June 9, 2025 at 6:08 pm)SubtleVirtue Wrote:

(June 9, 2025 at 4:47 pm)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote: Sorry to hear about the voices in your head. Have you tried psychiatric care? I’m give to understand that some of the newer meds are pretty effective.

Boru

what do you think of synthetic telepathy?

I don’t think of it at all.

Boru

(June 9, 2025 at 6:21 pm)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote:

(June 9, 2025 at 6:08 pm)SubtleVirtue Wrote: what do you think of synthetic telepathy?

I don’t think of it at all.

Boru

look up the patents for synthetic telepathy

basically you can irradiate a brain and put thoughts into it with easy

the psychiatic industry is about as old as synthetic telepathy... implying that most people in psych wards are on it

(June 9, 2025 at 5:48 pm)SubtleVirtue Wrote:

(June 8, 2025 at 9:51 pm)Astreja Wrote: "Intending well-being for all" certainly isn't the exclusive territory of Christianity - it's the core idea in Buddhist metta (lovingkindness) meditations. No gods are required.

Whether or not it's a "fundamental need for mankind" is debatable. It sounds to me as if you're trying to police the emotions of others, telling them what they should or should not feel. That is not cool, not at all; what I feel, for instance, is not for you to decide.

Buddah believed in God... God told him (according to his text) to teach the dharma.

should we force people to 'intend well-being for all'?

that would be difficult to do without synthetic telepathy

but if you could do it so conviently... what is the sin?

I don't care about Buddhist mythology. I don't believe in any gods.

There is no value in a forced emotion, and no value in merely intending well-being.  If you aren't going to back up your intention with real-world actions that give people the help they desire, you're just a feel-good poseur.

(June 9, 2025 at 5:53 pm)SubtleVirtue Wrote: How do you know the decay rate for anything besides carbon 14...

Stick a lump of it in a very well-shielded lab with a radiation detector and watch it tick. Amusingly, the shielding isn't to keep the radiation in, it's to keep it out. You want to measure relatively small amounts of radiation without getting confounding readings from every stray cosmic ray, weapons test, and RBMK, so you frequently see these facilities built deep underground. You'll see some creationist sites claiming that all geological isotopes are calibrated against one another, and that truly would be circular, but that simply isn't how it's done. If you want to know the decay rates for Uranium you ask the boys at Oak Ridge.

Quote:we know that the carbon 14 is from the radiation hiting the atmosphere but where does the radio isotopes come from from the other processes?

There are a few others like tritium, 10-Be, and 36-Cl that are also cosmogenic, similar to 14-C. Most of the rest are primordial, they were formed by the dying stars that fertilized the nebula that became our solar system. "We are all made of recycled nuclear waste" is so much less poetic than being made of stardust. The funny thing is you only find very long-lived isotopic systems, which tells you a lot about the age of the Earth right there.

(June 9, 2025 at 6:13 pm)SubtleVirtue Wrote:

(June 9, 2025 at 6:06 pm)Paleophyte Wrote: BTDT, all I'm seeing is a few scraps of cellular material and biomolecules.

that's plenty of carbon for a c14 test

Plenty of carbon, not plenty of carbon-14.

Boru