(April 23, 2012 at 7:26 pm)Phil Wrote: In case anybody here wants to be fooled by this morons insistence that I neither know what beta decay is or that there are only two types, here is a paper from MIT describing the three types of beta decay. See what happens when one relies on Google for science, they often end up looking stupid.
http://ocw.mit.edu/courses/nuclear-engin...mechan.pdf
Well, to be honest, I had forgotten about electron capture, probably because it is not common (from your link: "Electron capture is only possible if ΔP - ΔD > EB.") Be that as it may, this still does not answer my question:
How is spontaneous emission involved in beta decay (which is the only type of emission there can be in beta decay) evidence of "uncaused cause"?
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-- Samuel "Mark Twain" Clemens
"I think that in the discussion of natural problems we ought to begin not with the scriptures, but with experiments, demonstrations, and observations".
- Galileo Galilei (1564-1642)
"In short, Meyer has shown that his first disastrous book was not a fluke: he is capable of going into any field in which he has no training or research experience and botching it just as badly as he did molecular biology. As I've written before, if you are a complete amateur and don't understand a subject, don't demonstrate the Dunning-Kruger effect by writing a book about it and proving your ignorance to everyone else! "
- Dr. Donald Prothero
