(June 26, 2017 at 8:47 pm)MusicalElf11 Wrote:(June 25, 2017 at 4:24 pm)Alex K Wrote: @MusicalElf,
There is a lot wrong with your statements, but can you clear something up first - you are stating the half lifes for decays of three isotopes (U238, K40, C14) and you seem to be saying that they should all be the same if radiometric dating were to work? That makes no sense, so I wonder what you are thinking here. Mentioning C14 as a dating method for the age of the earth is silly as well because it is too short-lived for that.
That's... a very good point. I should have checked that before I sent it out. For some reason, while typing out my reasoning, that seemed to make sense to me, but you're right--that makes no sense. Of course the elements would have different half-lives, because they're different elements. (It wasn't something that was in my textbook either (where most of the other information came from), just something I came up with on the spot.)
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