Radioactive carbon dating

Absolutely unsupported bullshit. And nonsense. High-school physics stuff, at that - if not 8th-grade General Science.Chemical reactions vary their rates with heat.Nuclear reactions don't, at least in the range of temperatures available on a planet. Heat rhenium up enough to strip all its electrons, and yeah, beta decay gets faster. But that's interior-of-stars stuff, with no relevance at all to carbon dating.

Not suggesting, asserting. If you were taught that, you were fed bullshit.

Ewww. The article says "Nuclear stability is possiblre because the particles in the nucleus are each tiny magnets...."That's not even close. The rest of it is a bit suspect if we start with a complete fib, don't you think?

You have not the remotest clue what you're talking about, do you? What is the triple point of potassium - pressure and temperature? Is elemental potassium common in magma?

Well, yeah, I doubt that it was "by accident," too. It appears to have been carefully premeditated by Austin to get "erroneous" dates that he could write about....

They didn't date the structures! They dated the ash that fell on the structures! And what "isn't as old as the argon-argon date?" We know the minimum age of the ruins at Pompeii from history - and from the ash signature in the ice in Greenland, for that matter.

I can imagine so.........

It isn't "made" there. It was made in a star (or a couple of them) that contributed dust to our star system when it coalesced 4.6 billion years ago. It got collected into minerals when our planet formed, and melted into magma at some time since then. "Second stage of decay" from what, pray tell? Scandium 44 won't hunt - it decays by electron capture. Spontaneous fission of strontium-80, maybe, with all the atoms splitting evenly? I wonder why the nuclear physicists since the Curies never noticed that?Oh....'cause it doesn't happen.

You are correct, Mr. Jack - heavier isotopes do react more slowly in most situations, purely because they're "fatter" and have more inertia. Like me now and me at twenty. The Manhattan Project's biggest challenge was building those huge diffusion cells to seperate uranium-235 for bombs from the main isotope, U-238. The effects are pretty small in nature with, say, carbon 12 and 13, but they're measurable.

Really? Where was that published? I'll trade you some actual citations to scientific publications on fictitious 14C dates on snails and other mollusks if you'll give me one on petrified live lobsters.....