Extinct Radioisotopes and the Age of the Solar System

You probably were discussing this just the other day at your workplace, but who gets enough of radionuclides? When these kinds of radioisotopes occur naturally, they are found in minerals in the earth's crust. (You do not want them in groundwater.) There are some that should not be here at all, what with half-life, cosmic evolution, and other factors.

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Of course, y'all know that half-life is the time it takes something radioactive to decay to half of its initial value, and has nothing to do with reduced social interaction, right? Of course you do. Based on naturalistic assumptions involving the origin of the solar system, certain elements should not even exist — they would be "extinct". But they're not. Rescuing devices secularists propose are failing, and the truth is that the solar system as well as the universe were created far more recently than the secular science industry wants to admit.

There are a group of radioisotopes that are typically termed “extinct” . . . . These radionuclides were somehow injected into the molecular cloud from which our solar system supposedly originated. They were thought to have decayed to an unmeasurable presence in solar system objects. It has long been believed that their daughter isotopes can be used to gain information about the early stages of the solar system’s formation. Specifically, the short decay time for ²⁶Al (aluminum) has been used to measure the time between its supposed injection into the molecular cloud and the cloud’s subsequent collapse.

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