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  • Omniskeptical
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    Originally posted by Chrawnus View Post
    Genius troll is genius.

    ETA: I just have to assume that omniskeptical is trolling. The alternative is just too depressing to consider.
    It would appear magma doesn't have nuclear magnetic resonance.

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  • Omniskeptical
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    Originally posted by Roy View Post
    Then don't do it.

    Roy
    Tell JonF that.

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  • Roy
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    Originally posted by Omniskeptical
    I admit I was too specific about the kind of radiation coming from magma.
    You weren't too specific, you were wrong.
    I hate when people lie.
    Then don't do it.

    Roy

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  • Omniskeptical
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    Originally posted by JonF View Post
    More lithium. That's what you need, lithium.

    Chebyshev (note spelling) polynomials have nothing to do with radioactive decay or radiometric dating. Rb-Sr dating is a method that produces a line called an "isochron" when the data is plotted. An "isochrone" is something else.
    NO, this has to do with your wild goose chases.

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  • JonF
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    Originally posted by Omniskeptical View Post
    Inane as in how? It might be produced even by the noise in the equipment.
    Scientists are not morons. They invest a lot of time and effort and money to A) know how much noise there is in their equipment (and the don't assume it stays the same) and B) that noise is much much smaller than any signal they are claiming to measure.

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  • JonF
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    Originally posted by Omniskeptical View Post
    This sounds like a wild goose chase. First, Chebshev polynomials which are now outdone, and now 87b as being the "source of isochrones".
    More lithium. That's what you need, lithium.

    Chebyshev (note spelling) polynomials have nothing to do with radioactive decay or radiometric dating. Rb-Sr dating is a method that produces a line called an "isochron" when the data is plotted. An "isochrone" is something else.

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  • Omniskeptical
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    Originally posted by JonF View Post
    Looks like gibberish. No, we don't use different frequencies (oscillations per second) because there are no different frequencies to use, and the frequencies that sort of appear (the frequencies of a subatomic particles in their wave-like aspect) are not involved. We count numbers of atoms or ionizing particles passing through a detector.
    Oh, it is worse than I thought.

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  • JonathanL
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    Genius troll is genius.

    ETA: I just have to assume that omniskeptical is trolling. The alternative is just too depressing to consider.

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  • Omniskeptical
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    Originally posted by JonF View Post
    Nope, you are really worse than Jorge when it comes to scientific knowledge of subjects on which you pontificate. By an order of magnitude or more. That's really bad.
    I hate when people lie.

    The heat and/or pressure found in magma have been tested in the lab and do not affect radioactive decay rates.
    You couldn't get enough of both to get a good simulation.

    I'm sure, are you capable of comprehending simple English: "...there are a very few radioactive isotopes that decay rapidly under those conditions, and only one is used in radiometric dating (87Rb)." notes that 87Rb would decay faster if heated to a few billions of degrees. 87Rb decays to 87Sr and is referred to as Rb-Sr dating. Knowing the type I'm dealing with, I anticipated that you might say that maybe all Rb-Sr dates are wrong because of that (im-)possible effect. So I wrote "Since Rb-Sr dates agree with dates obtained from other isotopes that are not subject to such acceleration, therefore there was no such acceleration."
    Sure, if you are not mistaking it for Strontium-90 when determining its half life.

    I never mentioned 90Sr (or, for that matter, 87Sr) and it appeared only in the fevered imaginations of your mind.
    Whose fevered imaginations?

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  • JonF
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    Do you use differing frequencies to detect the "decay" of different rock elements?
    Looks like gibberish. No, we don't use different frequencies (oscillations per second) because there are no different frequencies to use, and the frequencies that sort of appear (the frequencies of a subatomic particles in their wave-like aspect) are not involved. We count numbers of atoms or ionizing particles passing through a detector.

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  • JonF
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    Originally posted by Omniskeptical View Post
    Magma is an excellent suspect. It is hot, has more electron-holes than most matter, and is pressurized...
    Doesn't matter. Radioactive decay is a nuclear process. Electron-holes and electrons don't matter*, because they are only involved with chemical reactions.

    (*Yeah, electron capture decay involves the innermost electron of an atom, but it's rare).

    ...slowing transmuting while at the same time facilitating it.
    Nope, you are really worse than Jorge when it comes to scientific knowledge of subjects on which you pontificate. By an order of magnitude or more. That's really bad.

    The heat and/or pressure found in magma have been tested in the lab and do not affect radioactive decay rates.

    Are you sure you aren't confusing Sr-90 with Rb-Sr-87?
    I'm sure, are you capable of comprehending simple English: "...there are a very few radioactive isotopes that decay rapidly under those conditions, and only one is used in radiometric dating (87Rb)." notes that 87Rb would decay faster if heated to a few billions of degrees. 87Rb decays to 87Sr and is referred to as Rb-Sr dating. Knowing the type I'm dealing with, I anticipated that you might say that maybe all Rb-Sr dates are wrong because of that (im-)possible effect. So I wrote "Since Rb-Sr dates agree with dates obtained from other isotopes that are not subject to such acceleration, therefore there was no such acceleration."

    I never mentioned 90Sr (or, for that matter, 87Sr) and it appeared only in the fevered imaginations of your mind.

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  • JonF
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    Originally posted by Omniskeptical View Post
    It can be detected in the ground area.
    No. There is a name for what you detect on the surface of the Earth: background radiation. There is a different name for radiation that originates in space and may or may not make it to the surface of the Earth: cosmic radiation. Two different things, two different names. If you want to speak of radiation which comes only from space or is in space, you speak of cosmic radiation. If you want to speak of the overall radiation we detect at the surface of the Earth, you speak of background radiation.

    Measurements have been simply assumptions, because the transmuting is not proven in the rock. It is awfully interesting that the bad assumptions start with Uranium.
    Radioactive decay was discovered because radioactive isotopes decay in rock, and it was radium. There have been literally tens of thousands of measurements of radioactive decay of rocks. We understand a lot of the physics. Radioactive decay in rocks is as well established as the fact that irons a solid under terrestrial surface conditions. You need to come up with evidence for your ludicrous assertions.

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  • Omniskeptical
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    Originally posted by JonF
    Nope. 235U produces "decay rays" and transmutes to 231Th. One 230Th for each decay of 235U, one decay of 235U for each 231Th. One to one.
    Evidently, I can take that as the consensus then.

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  • Omniskeptical
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    Originally posted by klaus54 View Post
    Genius,

    You might want to learn what cosmic rays are before you write your Noble Prize opus.

    K54

    http://hyperphysics.phy-astr.gsu.edu...ro/cosmic.html
    True. When helping out with someone's theory (someone who I will not name), I didn't know electron holes went from the negative end to the positive end. The electrons are actually positively charges and the electron holes being negative do all the work, according to his theory. I need to try it with the Faraday Effect(?) someday. I mean by coiling a magnet. It was an interesting hypothesis.

    Edit: I admit I was too specific about the kind of radiation coming from magma.
    Last edited by Omniskeptical; 06-08-2014, 01:41 PM.

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  • JonF
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    Originally posted by Omniskeptical View Post
    Radioactive isotopes decay at the same rate and in the same manner under all terrestrial conditions, in rocks, in magma, in any portion of the Earth you care to consider.
    They don't if you [don't] incinerate them.
    Gibberish. They decay at the same rate and in the same manner under all terrestrial conditions, in rocks, in magma, in any portion of the Earth you care to consider. Including any reasonable definition of "incinerate". But you need to define "incinerate" and list specific instances under which something else happens. Including references. Hint: there ain't any.

    U235 produces decay rays without transmuting constantly.
    Nope. 235U produces "decay rays" and transmutes to 231Th. One 230Th for each decay of 235U, one decay of 235U for each 231Th. One to one.

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