I guess all I have to do to provoke an attack is announce that I'm about done discussing something.
Still at it I see, CTD.
Geologists mean the same thing as everyone else when they employ the term kinematic.
Actually, they were very much talking about elements moving along cracks, only on a different scale.
Equivocating now?
Equivocating! The record's pretty clear about who started equivocating. You're the one who said geologists only use the term 'kinematic' to mean what's convenient for RAZD at the moment.
Curiously the people in the sciences get to determine how to use the terminology used in the science.
Make up your mind, please. I was getting the impression only
you got to determine what anyone ever means after-the-fact.
There's more. This article,
POLONIUM HALOS AND MYRMEKITE IN PEGMATITE AND GRANITE, by Lorence G. Collins, where he talks about some "Odd Circumstantial Facts":
When I looked closely into Gentry's Po halo studies, I noted four odd circumstantial facts contrary to his hypothesis. The first oddity is that his Po halos all occurred in granites and granite pegmatites, never in any other rock types, excepting locally near Bancroft.
In that area, the uranium-bearing calcite veins cross-cut the granitic rocks, and Po halos are absent from mafic rocks whether the mafic rocks are older or younger in age than the granites. This is true even when biotite is relatively abundant among the mafic minerals. These Po-halo-free rocks include biotite-bearing gabbros, diorites, and tonalites, as well as their volcanic equivalents. On the basis of field, chemical, and microscopic textural relationships, all of these mafic rocks are crystallized from magmas at high temperatures.
It is odd that Po halos are found only in certain, supposedly primordial, biotite-bearing granites and not in all primordial, biotite-bearing rocks. The Creator was evidently very selective about where he tucked the short-lived Po!
A second oddity I discovered was that all of the granites in which Gentry found Po halos also contain myrmekite. Myrmekite is a replacement mineral intergrowth, a fact that suggests that Po halos may not be present in all granites but only in granites formed by replacement processes. Conversely, perhaps only granites containing myrmekite should exhibit Po halos. In reality these do not always contain Po halos. Again, the Creator was very selective.
In other words, Polonium halos only occurred when the rocks in question were infected with uranium, saturated with radon and had mineral replacement happening along cracks, crevises and fissures, mineral replacement that is not restricted from carrying radon along with it.
In other words, the Polonium halos only occur in rocks where this infusion of radon gas can occur.
Not what he said. Not even close, and the text's right there for everyone to see. His main point is to question the "choices" of "the Creator", and he never mentions radon saturation at all. You even have to put words into your own source's mouth, it seems.
Or maybe Professor Collins didn't know what he was saying until RAZD made his argument for him?
I've been researching a little more, and I've found out that I was mistaken to focus on the formation of tubes around the migration paths.
To be sure, they'd form. There's no way around it.
There would be decay along the paths, but you have some logical issues with this decay forming tunnels. Consider when a particle decays: it fires off an alpha particle at a random angle in 3D space, and NOT perpendicular to the fissure. The probability of the particle being fired on a perpendicular path is very small, most will be fired ahead or behind and the distance from the crack will be random. Result: no (visible) tunnel.
Completely false. There'd be a tube, but it wouldn't be a hollow tunnel. There's no way around it.
Oh, I get it! When I was saying 'tube' I meant 'tunnel', right? Thanks for bringing my mistake to my attention in such a
cockeyed manner. Actually this must've been at least a double mistake: saying 'tube' when I meant 'tunnel' but really should've said 'tube' in the first place, which I actually said, but...
How many mistakes was I making after all is said & done?
But I looked into alpha-recoil tracks and found that they're much more devastating. When alpha decay occurs, the nucleus of the decaying atom recoils in the opposite direction. If it occurs in rocks, this creates clear tracks even if the atom was part of a solution.
And this is another red herring.
I guess the Po 214 halos are a red herring too, since you have no answer for them either.
Should've just written off all radiohalos as "red herrings" from the start, rather than waste everyone's time with your smokescreens.
But for everyone else's benefit, alpha-recoil traces aren't hard to spot, and they would have to be present if migration took place. And even migration fantasies can't explain away parentless Po 214 halos. Kinda why I figured it was time to stop talking about them. It's just "rubbing it in" at this point. There's no sport left at all (not that there was really much to begin with).
How impressive! Thanks for condescending to disclose the logarithmic nature of the graph. I wish that all facts could be pried loose in so few posts. But at any rate, I shan't have to demonstrate this one in the face of unrelenting obfuscation.
Sorry CTD, but I can't anticipate what it is that you don't know.
Nobody said you could. What we can all do is honestly disclose the facts. Even you can manage this, if you think it'll give you a chance to put me down.
So how about you renounce evolutionism & call me stupid & save some time? Deal?
The fact remains: change the decay rate, and you change the alpha particle energy, and this changes the radius of the halo.
Tut-tut, RAZD.
You're the ones always boasting on the peer-review process. You need to submit
RAZD's Law to your "fellow scientists" first, then you can come waving it in our faces. Surely with your sterling reputation, it would be a mere formality. Besides, don't you owe it to future generations to share your brilliance and insight?
