Woody said:
Just like atheists don't belong on a religion subforum. Yeah you're right Duke University, Caltech, and Yale are pumping out a lot of pseudoscience.
In a science forum, atheists are the
only ones that fit in at the religion sub-forum, where we discuss the science of religion. You know... the anthropology of belief; the sociology of the superstitious; etc. We just put up with proselytizing nutters because they're occasionally entertaining.
Woody said:
And you are an anthropology major? Physics is a little out of your league isn't it?
It might be. But then again it might not. I'm an anthro major that focuses on archaeology and I'm also a geology minor.
The pseudoscience in this thread isn't in the paper, which is based on solid work. Its in the assumptions that you create with your apparent limited education. Even I, the liberal arts major, noticed that the paper was talking about the age of the
inner core being 1.5 Gyr (1.5 billion yrs) in age. This is the
current inner core. The paper's authors aren't saying that the age of the
core is 1.5 Gyr!
Here's the peudoscience:
- Woody has a conclusion
- Woody seeks data to support conclusion
- Woody finds paper from real scientists who have real educations and sees what he wants to see in their work
- Woody says, "thermal modeling sets an old age limit at 1.5 billion years on the earth's core."
- The real scientists said, "...we estimate an age of the inner core that is close to 1.5 Gyrs."
The Earth was still here before that point. What they don't know at this time is if there was an "inner" and "outer" core or just a single prior to the current
inner core. There may have been an inner core of different or even same composition prior to the current inner core. Or there may have been only a single core (perhaps the more likely explanation based on readings of the literature I've already done) that separated into inner- and outer- cores.
The main point of this paper was to further confirm the hypothesis of radioactive potassium as a heat source in the Earth's core, a hypothesis that was presented by Nimmo et al the year before (2004).
Woody said:
Those aren't my words. You're a liar [at mythbuster]
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I don't know Woody.. I think I saw those words just prior to your edit of that post.
Nimmo et al. (2004).
The influence of potassium on core and geodynamo evolution.
Geophysics Journal International 156, pp. 363–376
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Now... can someone move this to the appropriate forum?
