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- From: carlip@landau.ucdavis.edu (Steve Carlip)
- Newsgroups: talk.origins
- Subject: Re: Who does Phillip Johnson think the creationists are?
- Message-ID: <21916@ucdavis.ucdavis.edu>
- Date: 28 Jan 93 03:05:48 GMT
- References: <2B53B66F.8366@ics.uci.edu> <1993Jan25.130636.1@woods.ulowell.edu>
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- In article <1993Jan25.130636.1@woods.ulowell.edu> cotera@woods.ulowell.edu writes:
- [...]
- >3. Non-constant decay rates (I'll try to get a list of secular sources
- >that actually show that the decay constants of radioactive substances
- >can change).
-
- Please do; I'll be happy to look at them. Note that nonconstant decay
- rates would be a potential disproof of the Standard Model in elementary
- particle physics, which is one of the best tested theories in modern
- theoretical physics. This should be interesting.
-
- (Interaction strengths, and therefore decay rates, *do* change at
- extremely high energies. But if this is going to be your argument,
- please check the energies first --- you don't want to end up saying
- "Decay rates would have been different if the earth had been a plasma.")
-
- Steve Carlip
- carlip@dirac.ucdavis.edu
-