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To: B-Chan
There's a lot of material in space probes. Should be able to draw a base-line from that.

/johnny

2 posted on 09/02/2008 8:18:14 PM PDT by JRandomFreeper (Bless us all, each, and every one.)
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To: JRandomFreeper

If you’re so smart, why aren’t you rich?


4 posted on 09/02/2008 8:20:50 PM PDT by null and void (Sarah Palin might be more conservative than even John McCain ~ Megyn Kelly, Fox News 9/2/08)
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To: JRandomFreeper

I heard these fluctuations might be due to sometin’ called
“quantum tunneling”....what always made me wonder was why
did one particular atom(call it Atom A) decay when the
one next to it(atom B) didn’t? Also, how does one know
when Atom A was produced, and when Atom B was produced.
Could the decay of Atom A prevent the Decay of atom B, or
could atom B cause the decay of Atom A?
If so, it could argue to extraneous causes for decay, hence
degrading the axiom that radioactive decay is useful as a
chronometer. What about massive cosmic radiation events
from pulsars, or supernovas, or sunstorms, could those
effect decay rates?
Could a massive spacetime “convulsion” reset the
radioactive clocks???


47 posted on 09/02/2008 9:25:41 PM PDT by Getready (Wisdom is more valuable than gold and diamonds, and harder to find.)
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