Reply To: Animated nuclear reaction.

[texaslabrat]

I’ve not needed to do any character assassination..I’ve only been pointing out facts. Any perceived character assassination is of your own doing through repeated demonstration of utter ignorance of high-school level physics. We’ve just been handing rope (in hopes you’ll pull yourself in from drowning)…it is you who have decided to use it to strangle yourself.

Who said anything about U235? You do realize that’s not the only radioactive element in the universe, right? U238 (which is FAR more common) has a half-life of about 4.5 billion years. Potassium 40 has a half life of 1.25 billion years. Thorium 232 has a half life of of 14 billion years. But I suppose you don’t believe in that stuff now that it refutes (yet again) your hypothesis.

I’m not about to list a play-by-play evolution of the earth’s heat history as fact, because I wasn’t there (though there are a number of models/theories which account for the things we observe today). But we *are* here now..we CAN measure heat flux, we CAN measure the loss of rotational energy of the earth, we CAN measure the distance that the moon is from the earth, and we CAN measure the half-lives of the most abundant naturally occurring radioactive materials.

But since you “don’t believe in that stuff” when it contradicts any notions you have…of course it’s unimportant. I’d be interested to hear Eric’s take on this since you keep invoking his name. Eric bucks the mainstream when it comes to cosmology, sure (since the big bang theory IS theory since none of us was around to actually witness it)…but he has a VERY firm grasp on modern physics (hence the FF project) and the scientific method which you seem oblivious to.

Or there’s another compelling theory: You are a troll who disagrees with anything and everything in order to incite a reaction from people. I think that’s actually far more likely than the demonstrated lack of thought you’ve shown thus far. Either way, I feel sorry for anyone who must rely on your critical thinking skills.