(Discussing radiometric dating)
What's an isotope?
(He looks it up for himself - wow!)
LOL --- okay --- I just checked it out. Here's the 411 on isotope:
"One of two or more atoms having the same atomic number but different mass numbers."
You mean someone messed up and gave the same element different mass numbers, then covered their mistake by calling it an "isotope"?
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It's a bit early for April Fools, AV. Or did you dedicate this stupidity to Groundhog Day?
Edit:
Happy Imbolc to all, BTW.
er... no... An isotope is when two or more atoms which have the same atomic number. Hence same/similar properties, but a different number of neutrons. Which gives a different atomic mass.
Care to read all the information before making claims?
Er, that "someone" would be God. Seriously, if this was anyone other than our AV-worshiping friend, I'd call poe in a nanosecond.
AV's comments have, in fact, paralysed nintendofreakgcn through sheer stupidity. This comment is being typed by a monkey that randomly broke into his house. The scary thing is that this comment still displays more intellect than those of AV.
Damnit! I was trying to think up some witty riposte, and suddenly I realized AV's stupid had drained my IQ too much.
Seriously, AV. I think your God messed up giving you a brain, since you obviously don't use it.
Except that Isotopes display "interesting properties" such as radioactive decay and occasionally providing us with ludicrous quantities of energy and the ability to create crazy big booms.
Never mind...
Its caused by goblins... Tiny invisible goblins.
The defining characteristic of an element, any element, is the number of protons in the nucleus (the atomic number) thus anything with 1 proton is Hydrogen, 2 protons is Helium and so forth.
The nucleus is made up of both charged protons and uncharged neutrons, typically in a roughly 1:1 ratio, although neutrons become more prevalent at higher atomic numbers. However, the neutrons don't define what the element is.
If you really want to scare AV1611VET then we can start talking quarks, protons and neutrons are made up of 3 quarks each. There are six different types of quark (although two (up and down) are the two most commonly occuring. Ups have a positive charge (+2/3) of double that of the negative charge of downs (-1/3). So a proton (up-up-down) has a positive charge of +1 and a neutron (up-down-down) has no charge.
(with me so far?)
Now, if we consider beta decay, where a neutron decomposes to form an beta particle/electron (charge -1) and a proton (charge +1), the atomic number is changing (as there is one more proton), so it will be a different element. On a subatomic particle level we have one fundamental particle (fundamental particles are as small as we can currently go, kinda like fundie IQs) breaking down to form two other fundamental particles (i.e. UDD -> UUD+ + e-)
That should be painful for someone whose philosophy is based in the 17th century.
David B. said:
"I think AV1611VET is an isodope. He has similar properties to other human beings, but is significantly denser."
That's it, everyone, this thread is officially over. We have a winner.
Tomorrow morning, AV1611Vet will pull his head out of his ass as he does once a year on Feb 2. If he sees his shadow, that means 365 more days of stupid for him. My guess is that he will see his shadow once again tomorrow......
What's an isotope?
Ohh, Ohh! Teacher, pick me. I'm ever so smart, and I know the answer.
Ahem, it's a member of Springfield's beloved baseball team.
I spend a lot of time watching reruns of The Simpson and haven't cracked a history book in 35 years ... but I'm still way smarter than AV1611VET the isodope.
Normal Person: "This technical stuff doesn't make sense to me, so I obviously don't know enough about it to comment."
Fundie: "This technical stuff doesn't make sense to me, so everything that these stupid godless scientists are saying is obviously wrong."
And there you have it. AV1611VET starts from the premises that he already knows everything and that all his knowledge and understanding are incapable of being incorrect or incomplete, so he concludes that his failure to understand something means that there's a flaw in the information, in the person delivering the information, in the philosophy behind the information, in the interpretation of the information, or in anything except his own premises. That force field of ignorance is darn near bulletproof.
~David D.G.
We're the 'arrogant atheists' remember, we're the know it alls. We may not spend ten seconds reading the first line of a wikipedia entry and then think we know more about the subject than people who have devoted their entire lives to studying these things but yeah, we're the arrogant ones.
Note that I'm taking chemistry this year.
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA...
HAHAHAHAHAHAHA... (catches breath)
HAHAHAHAHA...
Wow, what a complete idiot.
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Darth Vader says "The fail is strong with that one."
Arne wrote:
I'm voting for troll - he's far to intelligent to be this stupid
I agree, it takes intelligence to pretend to that level of apparent stupidity. We should stop quoting him here: he's just jerking our chain.
No, not that. Something different.
Ironically, this guy's display name looks like a course code from a high school subjects list.
You mean someone messed up and gave the same element different mass numbers, then covered their mistake by calling it an "isotope"?
Up until now, I thought this AV guy was an idiot, but this isn't an idiot, this is a freakin' poe; a desperate, attention-seeking poe, who probably loves seeing himself quoted here, and probably fondles himself while reading the condescending replies, going "you think I'm the fool, but I'm fooling you ALL, MUAHAHAHA" or something.
Confused?
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