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To: Quix
Wouldn’t carbon 14 dating issues be related?

C14 ratios are decay related... but seeing as how we are looking at very long half life (~5730 years), and the fact that the Earth's orbit is elliptical over a year's time, any changes in decay rate would tend to average out.

63 posted on 08/29/2008 7:33:56 PM PDT by Swordmaker (Remember, the proper pronunciation of IE is "AAAAIIIIIEEEEEEE!)
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To: Swordmaker

I think I can understand that about the earth’s orbit.

Pretend we found a log on Mars; another on a moon of Saturn and another on . . . oh, in honor of the movie . . . one of the moons of Endor.

Is it now conceivable, or not, that the decay rates could be different for each location?


65 posted on 08/29/2008 7:53:36 PM PDT by Quix (POL LDRS GLOBALIST QUOTES: #76 http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2031425/posts?page=77#77)
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