Originally Posted by Russ
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What qualifies you to determine that their assumptions are "wild"?


Common sense...

[quote]Which happens to be the same thing that qualifies me to determine that injecting children and infants with methylmercury—a strong neurotoxin—is a bad idea.
How did you know this? Was it some kind inborn knowledge...like instinct?
I contend that it isn't common sense at all, it's knowledge from studying that let you know that this form of methylmercury is dangerous. So do you have the knowledge about radioactive decay to determine if the assumptions by physicists are so wildly inaccurate that they cannot even be in the ballpark in determining how long-lived isotopes decay?

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Common sense also happens to be the same thing that qualifies me to determine that mercury offgassing from amalgam fillings was ruining my health when doctor after doctor after doctor seem incapable to diagnose the problem in so many people that I've spoken with. (My Mercury Story.)
Common sense told you that amalgams have mercury offgassing? You mean that you just had health problems that doctors couldn't diagnose and you just sat in your room one day and said "of course! Mercury offgassing!!!" No research, now reading of websites about mercury amalgams...just you and your common sense?

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You see, people are sheep, this includes doctors and lawyers and scientists and other professionals. They do what they are told; They believe what they are told; They are generally obedient.
Do you believe that these physicists determined that the radioactive decay follows exponential decay curves because they were told to do so? What evidence do you have to support this contention...letters?, post-a-notes?, emails?, video?, confessions by dying Master Masons?

Oh right! Your common sense.

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It is those who develop common sense that break people from the bonds of stupidity, conformity, and tyranny.
Those poor stupid, conforming physicists knuckling under to the tyrannical rule of the The Powerful Elite.

I'll ask you the same question, again.

So, what is it about the assumptions of physicists concerning radioactive decay that makes them invalid enough to cause a 6 orders of magnitude error in the conclusions regarding decay rates of long-lived isotopes?

A faith that connot survive collision with the truth is not worth many regrets. -- Arthur C. Clarke