Moontanman

Thank you, I was unaware of that decay path, particle physics and other related things are not in my area of expertise in any way but it still fascinates me. I read about it every chance I get. There is always something new to be learned and it's reasonably clear how it works... just facinting!

So we can observe these particles actively disintegrating atomic nucleus or are you saying we can detect the tiny amounts of this high energy radiation when it reaches the earth? The "oh my god particle" was not a gamma ray, cosmic rays are atomic nuclei accelerated to within a tiny fraction of the speed of light. Get back to me when you figure out the difference between cosmic rays and gamma rays.

Thank you sensei, I was unaware of the photodisintegration via high energy gamma rays... exactly where in the natural environment would you expect to see such high energy gamma rays? While I acknowledge that you are correct I was going by what the atomic energy commision says about nuclear fallout, em radiation doesn't cause radioactivity in stable atoms. BTW do protons disintegrate into neutrons under this extreme gamma ray flux? Again, this is not true, only very high energy gamma rays can photo disintegrate a nucleus... Not "any of radiation", no matter how long exposed. Under normal Earth conditions only particle radiation can cause a nucleus to become radioactive.

This is not true, EM radiation cannot make any atom's nucleus unstable, it takes particles like neutrons or protons to actually make another atom radioactive.

No, in fact there is no hydrogen 2 isotope, Hydrogen has one proton not two, hydrogen can have one or two neutrons (becoming deuterium and tritium respectively) but once it has two protons it becomes helium, two protons and one neutron is helium 3. The lack of neutrons and the effects of what happens when you remove the two neutrons is far outside my wheelhouse but I would think you need to show how to remove those two neutrons from a helium atom or alpha particle.

The protons in an alpha particle are already fused... into an alpha particle. What do you think they would fuse into?

I've been watching so much Outlander I understood what you said!

WHAT? You don't wear a kilt? Talk about no true Scotsman!

Positions of authority often lead to people who like to dominate others being in those positions. The addition of cameras on police officers and the ability to film the police has resulted in a huge number of charges being filed against the police for violating the rights of the people. This is a good thing in my estimation, malice may or may not be the source of the problem but the abuse and intentional escalation of police civilian encounters is real. The data we have obtained from police body cams is enough to show the police are in great need of oversight, if the police are so broken they to carry out their job in secrete then they need the light of inquiry to fix them.

Well then, I guess that makes Islam golden!

You stay lubed up, I'll continue to try and change the deal.

50 years ago being gay was reason enough to deny a person a job, a house, even a spouse. New laws stopped that travesty but the culture hasn't completely caught up as of yet. When slavery was abolished was it because the culture wanted to fight a war to change the laws or did two separate culture parts have to fight a war to force a law change? Yes but the grand leader uses those tools to control his people and religion plays into this in a big way. All the dear leader has to do is convince the people he serves god then he can do and get them to do anything under threat of hell fire. Religion is the most powerful tool a leader can have on his side. I am fine with "them" deciding for themselves it's when they decide for others that I have a problem with.

You seriously don't think laws alter cultures? True not all muslims follow the laws of Islam any more than all Christians or Hindus follow those laws however... I am i no danger of being "officially" killed due to my lack of belief as I would in many countries who follow Sharia law. It should also be noted that in many islamic theocracies leaving the religion is dealt with by the death penalty. It is indeed everyone's "we" just because you don't know you don't need a sky daddy to tell you how to live doesn't mean you do need a god to tell you how to live. Religion is at the core of most of our problems in this day and age. Far too many people rely on nonsensical advice from greedy grifters who claim the moral high ground while quoting scripture from a book that can be shown to be wrong about nearly everything that can be tested. This "book" is being used to garner support for converting our country into a theology run by oligarchs. Religion is being used to destroy our country by a man who comes damn close to qualifying as the antichrist, if I was a believer I would be quite certain of this. The Quran is no better nor is the religious writings of any other mythology.

What good does Islam do the world? We, the world, don't need Islam or any other fairy tale to run our lives.

A threat ahmet?

Sharia law violates the basic premise of human rights at nearly every turn.

Your premise is flawed, impacting asteroids do not slide or bounce like a bullet hitting the ground would, asteroids would not be physically strong enough. You made this claim and touted it as true over and over while never giving a single example of this happening or even if it could happen. I would suggest you bring some evidence to back up your assertion before you try to bring baseless assertions to our attention.

Please give an example of a bouncing asteroid.

Again, please provide a citation for sliding/bouncing asteroids, an asteroid impact releases outrageous amounts of energy. We need to see the justification for sliding/bouncing asteroids.

Can you give us any evidence of a meteorite sliding after striking the Earth? How would that work? What would a meteor have to made of to allow it to survive impact and slide?

Islam is just another religion, a man made mythology that serves only to allow some people to control others. No truth to the proposition that a god exists is any more prevalent in Islam than any other religion. Present a an assertion that Islam is the truth and I will ask for your evidence for this and critique or accept any evidence that can be confirmed. No particular positive or negative premise is given for Islam or any other religion here that I've seen.

No, I wear an outback hat and crocs. Occasionally I wear a pair of denim shorts with the hat and crocs.

I almost lost my job once by demonstrating the leidenfrost effect with molten polymer. I used to work for Dupont and we made polyester. I often ran experiments for various engineers which meant I got to work with various parameters of the process which involved hot polymer 350c. I found that as long as the polymer wasn't degraded I could allow the polymer to pour into my hands and I could mold the thick molten polymer with my hands. The water/sweat on my hands protected me from the hot polymer sticking to my skin. I once showed a member of management this little trick and he lost his mind! He thought I was somehow burning myself to harm the company or something and called to have me escorted off site. The engineer I was working for had to set him down and explain physics to the guy... I kind of felt sorry for him. Hey I drive a Jeep, I prefer off road wanker.