 Neanderthals
|
|
|
Conundrum
|
|
Wed Dec 15 2010, 06:08AM
|
|
|
Registered Member #96
Joined: Thu Feb 09 2006, 05:37PM
Location: CI, Earth
Posts: 4062
|
hmm.. sounds like the old speed versus lifetime argument in overclocking.
Back to the latest attempt at reconciling evolution with creationism, it seems that the latest "theory" is called "special creation" which is yet another attempt at cherry picking arguments to prove an unsound theory.
I often wonder if the argument will ever be settled, at least with physics a bad theory can be refuted by particle accelerator experiments and direct observation.
Interestingly the latest research on radioactive decay tenuously suggests that it can be somewhat influenced by solar neutrinos, but only by a very small percentage in certain specific isotopes.
The theory suggests that under certain high density conditions neutrinos can perturb a barely stable nucleus into fissioning slightly earlier than it should, a bit like resonance can shatter a wineglass.
i speculate that in time this explanation will be found to be true, and "uninteracting" neutrinos in fact found to be responsible for a lot of common isotope decays.
There was also an article about superconducting critical temperature being somewhat sensitive to isotope type (B-10 versus B-11) which suggests that quantum systems are *very* sensitive to nuclear configuration.
perhaps in the future this effect will be used with room temp. superconductors combined with a radioactive isotope to make super-sensitive radiation detectors 
-A
"Bother" said Pooh, as Prof. Hawking wasn't nominated for a physics Nobel again..
|
|
Back to top
|
|
Moderator(s): Chris Russell, Noelle, Alex, Tesladownunder, Dave Marshall, Dave Billington, Bjørn, Steve Conner, Wolfram, Kizmo, Mads Barnkob
|
|
Powered by e107 Forum System
|
