(June 9, 2025 at 6:35 pm)SubtleVirtue Wrote:(June 9, 2025 at 6:28 pm)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote: Plenty of carbon, not plenty of carbon-14.
Boru
can you prove that?
Yes. Scaling up from the amount of c14 in human body, a T. Rex would have about 100 micrograms of that isotope. Since the half life is 5700 years, a T. Rex corpse could theoretically contain no more about 8 nanograms of c14, far too small for a test.
Boru
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