Just how far we have got by COUNT1NG NUMB3R5
It may surprise people just how far the carry-over effect of including one small mistake after another in basic mathematics has spread to all branches of learning.
It starts with people forgetting that there is something missing in the common expression, "One plus one equals two", for example, and goes on to the way we process every kind of data, until, in the end, one gets it as being "obvious" that something like the above equation is even possible.
The statement is very farfetched, and it is the cornerstone of the author of "The Age of The Earth"'s mathematical proof of the age of our home, or an integral part thereof, and it basically is about time, hence the 't'. N, stands for amount of a radioactive substance that remains after time t, while the original amount is the one with the subscript "o". t1/2 is the time, that is fixed for the substance to have 'decayed' to more stable elements [apparently it is very much in vogue to assume that everything strives for perfection, even the elements, so, if left alone they will gradually decompose/ decay with active sound...no, I mean 'radioACTIVE'-ly, 'radio-' is from 'radium', an element that Madam Currie made famous or discovered, and it "breaks down"to more 'thermodynamically stable' (heat apparently "moves", there is actually a WHOLE branch of learning dedicated to the study of how to regulate this motion, like a traffic- police thing;- even though one can neither see nor touch 'heat' *[*heard the joke;- If you see a heat wave will you wave back?*]), hence the "radio". Unfortunately there is no sound...at least not the type one can DANCE to any way, more is the pity. Probably sub-sonic, or sub-atomic!]
It starts with people forgetting that there is something missing in the common expression, "One plus one equals two", for example, and goes on to the way we process every kind of data, until, in the end, one gets it as being "obvious" that something like the above equation is even possible.
The statement is very farfetched, and it is the cornerstone of the author of "The Age of The Earth"'s mathematical proof of the age of our home, or an integral part thereof, and it basically is about time, hence the 't'. N, stands for amount of a radioactive substance that remains after time t, while the original amount is the one with the subscript "o". t1/2 is the time, that is fixed for the substance to have 'decayed' to more stable elements [apparently it is very much in vogue to assume that everything strives for perfection, even the elements, so, if left alone they will gradually decompose/ decay with active sound...no, I mean 'radioACTIVE'-ly, 'radio-' is from 'radium', an element that Madam Currie made famous or discovered, and it "breaks down"to more 'thermodynamically stable' (heat apparently "moves", there is actually a WHOLE branch of learning dedicated to the study of how to regulate this motion, like a traffic- police thing;- even though one can neither see nor touch 'heat' *[*heard the joke;- If you see a heat wave will you wave back?*]), hence the "radio". Unfortunately there is no sound...at least not the type one can DANCE to any way, more is the pity. Probably sub-sonic, or sub-atomic!]
Now, if you thought it weird that...or maybe, it is weird that you probably thought it NORMAL... for it to be possible to have 't/t1/2', that is, 'total time elapsed over time for element of amount No to decompose, by some fixed rule of thumb [ not only heat but elements also have a self-policing policy, they will zealously obey this law] to exactly half its original amount'...with no outside influence affecting it whatsoever; well if you thought that was 'cool', then the other equations you will probably take in your stride...
EH?!!
For me to start having to even 'explain" that, before even pointing out WHAT IS WRONG, I would have to have about just three weeks to bring people up to speed, and then bring them back to earth, so I will not spoil it for now.
Suffice it to say that there is a reason why someone has to be of a certain mental "capacity" to be able, like Professor G. Brent Dalrymple, to boldly profess that one can actually find the age of the earth based on what is, basically, an accretion of nonsense.
