Carbon 14 Dating 1

Carbon 14 Dating 1

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• Carbon
• 14
• Dating

[clerlic]

@CogitoErgoCogitoSum I never said I was smart, but here you are, claiming that thousands of respectable sciencists are wrong. Not only that, but you're claiming to know precisely why they are wrong, so it should be pretty easy for you to write a sciencific paper that will change a lot of things. I'm not gonna waste my time "debunking" your stuff, because it's easily done by reading some geology articles. But go ahead, prove them wrong, even with a team if you want, I challenge you for your sake.

[Hooya2]

@CogitoErgoCogitoSum Could you be more specific regarding the case when the same bone yielded two different samples, or archeologists throwing out results without giving a serious reason why?

I recommend reading the Nobel Prize speech of Willard Libby, the founder of C14 dating. He addressed many of your arguments (in 1960), like providing empirical evidence that C14 distribution is largely even across the world. He defends the method being usable for 50,000 years in the past as well.

[RolandRhodes1]

how much cost it to set up your own carbon 14 dating equipment ?

[dr1303]

I'm mostly dating girls...

[vicksoma]

@AngelKnight85268 Potassium-Argon dating is used for dating things that are millions of years old. It's half life is 1.25 billion years. Sal made a video about it in this playlist.

[Maracachucho]

@AngelKnight85268 The general term is radiometric dating, which is composed of a lot of different methods based on uranium, potassium and carbon (among others i don't remember of course).

[AngelKnight85268]

Is the 11,460 years the maximum half-life that carbon 14 would still be in the system? How do scientists say that something is millions of years old through carbon-dating if it can't go past about 50,000 years? Or do they use something else to date it and the media just says carbon-dating? I'm confused now.

[IsgiInet123]

is the amount of C14 that a living organism takes in itself always constant? is C14 production in the atmosphere always constant?

and if e.g a Panda eats 200 year old bamboo or similar and he got eaten 100 years after it by a tiger... does the tiger then have the double amount of C14 in him than usual or not?

[aleshka1234]

carbon 14 dating is not a reliable source for dating. The idea behind how it works are sound but in practice rarely does the estimated dates given by carbon 14 match or even come close to the know date of the artifact. . This is because of a few assumptions made by this method . The main assumption being that the rate at which carbon 14 is produced in the atmosphere is constant. Its interesting to note that It was proven that the rate of carbon 14 production is not constant . its increasing!

[paulceltics]

100th like

[hahs4]

that is so sad, I will not be able to eat anything containing C-14 once I am dead

[nitrorev386]

I dated a carbon once, she was clingy.