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Lightning Can Produce Carbon-14
Creation Evolution Headlines ^ | November 29, 2017 | David F. Coppedge

Posted on 11/29/2017 10:41:38 AM PST by fishtank

Lightning Can Produce Carbon-14

November 29, 2017 | David F. Coppedge

In a surprise announcement, Japanese researchers found that lightning bolts can be powerful enough to cause nuclear fission, leading to new isotopes— including carbon-14.

For decades, we have been told that carbon-14 is generated only by high-energy cosmic rays striking the atmosphere, hitting nitrogen atoms. Carbon-14 (14C) is one of the leading dating methods for organic remains up to a maximum of 100,000 years. Now, researches from the Kyoto University watched lightning bolts generate gamma rays and positrons, indicating that nuclear fission was occurring. One of the products, they believe, is 14C. Their paper in Nature says,

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events; Philosophy
KEYWORDS: carbon14; lightning
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To: Ciaphas Cain

“I was 7 years old and came upon the article about radiocarbon in the World Book Encyclopedia.”

Heh - did your mom scold you too as you sat on the floor with the books scattered around you? “You better make sure those all get put back in the right place!”

It was sort of the internet of our time. Reading about WWII and they mention “Hitler” - pull out the G-H-I book....


21 posted on 11/29/2017 2:19:26 PM PST by 21twelve (http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2185147/posts FDR's New Deal = obama)
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To: fishtank

Old news. And you left out the part about anti-matter being ejected into space.


22 posted on 11/29/2017 2:26:44 PM PST by <1/1,000,000th%
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To: <1/1,000,000th%

Photonuclear reactions triggered by lightning discharge
Teruaki Enoto, Yuuki Wada, Yoshihiro Furuta, Kazuhiro Nakazawa, Takayuki Yuasa, Kazufumi Okuda, Kazuo Makishima, Mitsuteru Sato, Yousuke Sato, Toshio Nakano, Daigo Umemoto & Harufumi Tsuchiya
Nature 551, 481–484 (23 November 2017)


23 posted on 11/29/2017 2:57:22 PM PST by fishtank (The denial of original sin is the root of liberalism.)
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To: calenel

Well it works until we’ve lost all our marbles.


24 posted on 11/29/2017 5:20:13 PM PST by AndyTheBear
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To: fishtank

this basically puts tosses a monkey wrench into the gears of archaeological dating. Something that Prof. Gunnar Heinsohn would be happy to explain further:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gunnar_Heinsohn
https://malagabay.wordpress.com/2016/05/12/the-roman-time-line-and-the-heinsohn-horizon/


25 posted on 11/29/2017 6:33:05 PM PST by Yollopoliuhqui
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To: AndyTheBear
You are not alone in that assessment, but I am afraid I think that is not very likely to be true. The universe at least appears to be far older. I can suppose it true that God simply created it 6000 years ago so that it would simply look older than it is. But why would He? Its not like He has to wait around and be patient. He can create it with a back story like an author writing a book.

Everything that He created had an appearance of age. Consider Adam. When Adam was created he probably looked like a 20 something year old man. There are many people who believe God could not "fool" us with an appearance of age in the size of the universe but they are not thinking right. God's word trumps what our science says.

26 posted on 11/30/2017 5:19:08 AM PST by DungeonMaster (Goblins, Orcs and the Undead: Metaphors for the godless left.)
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To: DungeonMaster

Modern science itself was started when some very brilliant Christians expected creation to be comprehensible...as Rene Descartes pointed out in his Medatations: because God is no deceiver.


27 posted on 11/30/2017 8:18:24 AM PST by AndyTheBear
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To: fishtank

It’s like thunder, lightning
The way you love me is frightening
You better knock, knock on wood, baby


28 posted on 11/30/2017 8:08:38 PM PST by mfish13 (Elections have Consequences.)
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