Talk:Accelerated decay

Should this be an inverse relationship?
...up to 58% of the helium had not diffused out of the zircons; the percentages decreased with depth and temperature.

That describes a direct relationship between non-diffusion and depth and temperature. Should that not be an inverse relationship with temperature? The hotter it is the less helium is retained.

I suppose that increased depth and pressure would inhibit diffusion. Oelphick 03:34, 1 September 2006 (CDT)

Is expansion of space sufficient to eliminate heat from decay
You suggest that the expansion of space will eliminate excess heat from accelerated decay.

However, the expansion of space does not affect the local surroundings of a particular body, such as the earth. I do not see how expanding space would eliminate extra heat caused by accelerated decay on the earth itself. There needs to have been some other mechanism for that. Oelphick 03:46, 1 September 2006 (CDT)

EvoWiki
EvoWiki's new article cites this article as a source.

http://wiki.cotch.net/index.php/Expansion_of_space_removed_excess_heat_during_accelerated_decay--Nlawrence 18:48, 29 November 2007 (EST)

Tesla
I'd like to ask whether someone might be aware of any of Tesla's published documents that would provide reference for following statement: "Nikola Tesla, who did a lot of experimental work with Electromagnetism, suggested that some type of ray may trigger radioactive decay." Thnx -- AnthropologicalConstant 17:22, 31 May 2011 (UTC)

Answers in creation rebuttal
I don't know enough about accelerated decay, so I would be interested in a response to any of the rebuttals to accelerated decay by answers in creation. They make several responses in this article (http://www.answersincreation.org/bookreview/tnb/thousands_not_billions_9.htm):

1 - If string theory caused accelerated decay, accelerated decay would be occurring now. 2 - No proof that cosmological cooling would get rid of heat. 3 - With the cosmological cooling, it would be very difficult to keep earth warm enough not to freeze and cold enough not to burn. 4 - If cosmological cooling happened, we would be able to see it. 5 - If 500ma of potassium decay occurred during the flood, Noah would have burned up from the inside. 6 - Carbon was roughly the same 4,000 years ago, whereas RATE claims it was 100 times less. Shinydarkrai94 16:02, 22 July 2011 (PDT)