Physics and Archaeology

Guinnessy writes: "In 1960 Willard Frank Libby won a Nobel Prize for his work on radiocarbon dating, a technique that truly revolutionize archaeology. Now Physics Today magazine has an article describing how new methods are yielding more accurate dates for our prehistoric ancestors, profoundly affecting our understanding of the past. Neat stuff."

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Re:more accurate...

[Beowulfto]

You want to know why they test older? It is because the world was created mature. The trees already had fruit on them, the animals were full-grown, not babies. In the same manner, oil and coal were in the ground. Even dinosaur bones existed at the creation of the world. Since the world was already mature, the rocks and everything that exists already had a history. So while a skull tests as 25,000 years old, it had just been made. Try to wrap your mind around that concept. It amazes me how many people can't fathom this idea.

This concept is an idea of my own concoction and doesn't represent anyone else.