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resistance is futile, you will be assimilated
RE: resistance is futile, you will be assimilated
(June 7, 2025 at 10:04 pm)SubtleVirtue Wrote: If life based carbon materials are found in a fossil, you would think that they would carbon date it!!!

as a scientist I have real discoveries, real unique experiments, and real new inventions.

Then, as a scientist, you'll understand the limitations of any measuring tool only too well. Here are a few caveats for the 14-C radiometric system:

(1) The analysis typically requires a gram or so of material. Modern AMS techniques can push this down to the sub-milligram range.

(2) No radiometric system works much beyond 10 half-lives of the active isotope. For 14-C that's 5,730 years, which means you can't reliably date anything much older than about 60,000 years with it.

(3) Fossilization typically introduces abundant "dead carbon" contamination in the form of carbonate minerals and fluids.

So when looking at cells in dinosaur fossils you have (1) way too little material that's (2) way too old and (3) way too contaminated for 14-C dating to be meaningful. If you could find an entire herd of Tyrannosaurs and were foolish enough to dissolve up the fossils of their bones then you might be able to find enough material to not provide you with a date regardless. Congrats, you'll have conclusively demonstrated that there's no 14-C where nobody except for religious crackpots expected to find it. The only sensible reason to do that would be to demonstrate contamination and there are much more effective means to do that.
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RE: resistance is futile, you will be assimilated - by Paleophyte - June 8, 2025 at 12:13 am

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