Thanks again, CTD for demonstrating the depth of your knowledge.

Your lack of knowledge of a mechanism does not mean there isn't one, nor that the process is not well understood by physicists -- the ones measuring the data and making those graphs that show the relationship, and that the experimental results match the calculated decay rates and alpha energies.

Quantum tunneling is based on quantum mechanics, which is calculated with field equations. These are based on probabilities due to the uncertainty principle, the principle that says we can't know which two protons and two neutrons will come together and tunnel out of an atom or even which atom it will tunnel out of ... however, like calculating the probability of flipping coin can predict the overall results while being totally incapable of predicting a single toss, probability calculations can predict the overall effects:

Decay will happen when the appropriate combinations make an isotope radioactive, and energy of the alpha particle will be related to the decay rate.

It doesn't matter what you fail to discuss, or how you try to move the goalposts around, as the fact is that without quantum tunneling decay would not exist. When proton and neutron, alpha particles and the nuclei of larger atoms combine they give up energy, and they can't undo that combination without adding that energy back.

We know that decay does occur. Nobody said that you said that it didn't, the point is that quantum tunneling explains how decay does occur. It also explains the energy of the alpha particle and how it is related to the decay rate.

Not at all, as this is your argument, your straw man, and it is obviously false as well.

The rocks that show polonium halos are infected with uranium inclusions and uranium halos, and they are saturated in radium, a gas that readily dissolves in water as well. These rocks also show fissures, cracks and minute pockets where the radon gas or radon carrying water can easily reach, and along those fissures -- because of the radon being saturated through the rock -- we should see your "migrating tunnel" if your assertion were true, and we don't. Not one. Anywhere. Therefore your claim that a "migration tunnel" would have to form is falsified by the evidence. Simply put, you are wrong (again).

What do we see? We do see tracks with halos like beads along the fissures and cracks, often overlapping, but alway centered on concentrations of deposited polonium.

It is not a conclusion of scientists that this would occur, it is another of the observed pieces of evidence that shows that radon does cause polonium halos along fissures and cracks.

Curious that you contradict your own earlier statement: "You want to claim "quantum tunneling" is the means of decay? This is an ineffective dodge. " ... or is your argument just based on denial of whatever is said? You were the one that said that when your argued was based on falsehoods that you would end up with contradictions, weren't you?



Yes you can see how "jimmied" the lines are. The horizontal scale, by the way, is logarithmic, so that exponential (curved) functions show up as straight lines, standard practice in science.

Sadly, for CTD, it looks like he is wrong again.

Enjoy.