06 Jan 07
Originally posted by mikelomCarbon is a product of fusion from stars and in our case the carbon on earth is mostly from the sun, you ever hear of the carbon-carbon cycle of fusion? A dude won the nobel prize for figuring it out I think. Anyway, carbon 14 gets deposited on the top of the atmosphere and drifts down to earth where after x amount of years it turns into C13 which we can date. I got that info from Scottishinz. He knows all about that stuff. I think I got the theory right.
?? We use it to date things, x-ray it, scan it........blaaa. Who knows it wasn't planted here as a time decoy?
06 Jan 07
Originally posted by sonhouseYup. Know all about that stuff. In fact carbon didn't and couldnt exist b4 hydrogen, neither could the sun. So at the big bang the sun didn't exist either. Fusion was a concept, and ions didn't knw what they were travelling thru. So how CArbon?
Carbon is a product of fusion from stars and in our case the carbon on earth is mostly from the sun, you ever hear of the carbon-carbon cycle of fusion? A dude won the nobel prize for figuring it out I think. Anyway, carbon 14 gets deposited on the top of the atmosphere and drifts down to earth where after x amount of years it turns into C13 which we can da ...[text shortened]... I got that info from Scottishinz. He knows all about that stuff. I think I got the theory right.
06 Jan 07
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Originally posted by mikelomSo how old is carbon? Is that your question? If so, the first carbon would start being manufactured by the first stars, I image they started forming pretty soon after the universe turned clear some 400,000 yeas after the BB. That would be my guess, of course the carbon around earth would mostly have come from the sun so that puts that carbon at about 4 and a half bil years ago. Not sure if that's your question though, if so, the age of carbon would vary from like last year to 4 billion years old because it's continually manufactured by the sun, so it comes out at a somewhat constant rate.
Yup. Know all about that stuff. In fact carbon didn't and couldnt exist b4 hydrogen, neither could the sun. So at the big bang the sun didn't exist either. Fusion was a concept, and ions didn't knw what they were travelling thru. So how CArbon?
06 Jan 07
Originally posted by sonhouseJust wanted to know if the Diamond ring I bought my wife was new or not.
So how old is carbon? Is that your question? If so, the first carbon would start being manufactured by the first stars, I image they started forming pretty soon after the universe turned clear some 400,000 yeas after the BB. That would be my guess, of course the carbon around earth would mostly have come from the sun so that puts that carbon at about 4 and a half bil years ago. Not sure if that's your question though.
