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Physics and Archaeology

Posted by michael on from the captain-caveman dept.

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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  1. Second post! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Second post!

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  3. Slashdot editors are bunch of ignorant fuckers by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    There I said it.

    Learn what is important to the tech and the web world, you stupid assholes.

  4. Re:more accurate... by Beowulfto · · Score: 1, Troll
    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.

    --
    There's no point in being grown up if you can't be childish sometimes. -- Dr. Who
  5. Re:more accurate... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    I guess you are beliving in god?
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    There is no god beside me!

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