tgirlschierke@lemmy.blahaj.zone to 196@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish · 13 hours agoTime Traverulelemmy.blahaj.zoneimagemessage-square37fedilinkarrow-up1530
arrow-up1530imageTime Traverulelemmy.blahaj.zonetgirlschierke@lemmy.blahaj.zone to 196@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish · 13 hours agomessage-square37fedilink
minus-squareSpaceNoodle@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·9 hours agoWhy wait when you could just go to the point of discovery?
minus-squareRamenJunkie@midwest.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up7·9 hours agoYou need it to be propery aged for carbon dating and shit.
minus-squareSpaceNoodle@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up11·7 hours agoHow old does carbon need to be before you can legally date it? Asking for a friend.
minus-squareSaledovil@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·4 hours agoAtoms don’t age. They don’t mature, and they don’t change with time. Unstable isotopes decay at random, but the decay probability never changes. So you can legally date carbon that’s 0 years old, if you find any. Most carbon will be much older than you.
minus-squareSpaceNoodle@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·4 hours agoHow do you know how old all of my carbon is? I mean, my friend’s carbon?
Why wait when you could just go to the point of discovery?
You need it to be propery aged for carbon dating and shit.
How old does carbon need to be before you can legally date it?
Asking for a friend.
Atoms don’t age. They don’t mature, and they don’t change with time. Unstable isotopes decay at random, but the decay probability never changes.
So you can legally date carbon that’s 0 years old, if you find any. Most carbon will be much older than you.
How do you know how old all of my carbon is?
I mean, my friend’s carbon?