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Author Topic:   Key to proving Apparent Age Argument
shalamabobbi
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Message 14 of 17 (574974)
08-18-2010 4:10 PM
Reply to: Message 1 by Theoferrum
11-09-2009 4:28 PM


If you suffer from Brown's gas eat less cheese
Hi Theoferrum,
Even though your name is a bit rusty I'm going to assume that you are young.
It appears that Brown's Gas has the ability to decrease radioactivity to safe levels...and this would make the waste material(at Oklo) appear to be billions of years old
If the radioactivity were reduced this would make waste material appear younger than it really is, as it now would require even more time to accumulate.
In order for a nuclear reactor to work the ratio of U235 to U238 must reach 3%.
In nature it is less than 1%. So Oklo is impossible.
But don't celebrate just yet.
The ratio can be enriched..
source:
Forbidden!
So now that you have read the source (you did read it didn't you?) you know how to separate isotopes, (by some method that takes advantage of the difference in mass or how much they weigh).
If you can think of how nature might do this to create Oklo please explain it to me now..
If not, that leaves but one other explanation that I am aware of to account for the difference in concentration between U235 and U238.
They happen to decay at different rates.
If we had equal amounts of U235 and U238 and wait long enough we find that the U235 disappears faster than U238. The longer we wait the higher the concentration of U238 would become compared to U235. So if the present ratio of U235 to U238 is under 1% and U235 decays faster than U238 how can the Oklo reactor be possible?
Think this out for yourself.. If you have to give up, go ahead and read the spoiler..
Spoiler: Far enough back in time we will reach a point where the concentration of U235 to U238 will reach 3% or more allowing the possibility of a natural reactor to form.
How far back? (You're not going to like this..)
about 2 billion years.
(see, I told you you wouldn't like it)
Edited by shalamabobbi, : No reason given.

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