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Tapping The Hourglass: Disequilibrium Relaxation Following Accelerated Nuclear Decay, Nathan Mogk
Tapping The Hourglass: Disequilibrium Relaxation Following Accelerated Nuclear Decay, Nathan Mogk
Proceedings of the International Conference on Creationism
In 2005, the Radioisotopes and the Age of The Earth (RATE) research initiative published compelling evidence for at least one episode of past radioactive decay which was accelerated by orders of magnitude compared with the rates measured in recent years. Constancy of radioactive decay rates is a central assumption in radiometric dating. Accelerated nuclear decay (AND) causes systematic change in the results of radiometric dating beyond the in situ above normal accumulation of daughter products. This includes relaxation of magma reservoirs to equilibrium and excessive inheritance arising from disequilibrium excesses of daughter products of greater order than crystal-melt partition ratios. …