Episode #181: Stellar Nucleosynthesis and Radiometric Dating

Brothers of the Serpent

Society & Culture, History, Philosophy

4.8 • 668 Ratings

🗓️ 7 January 2021

⏱️ 180 minutes

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Summary

In this episode Russ gives a presentation, with slides, about the standard model processes that take place in stars to generate elements, how that process eventually results in novas and supernovas, and how supernovas and other similar very high energy events generate cosmic rays. When these cosmic rays hit earth, they result in "cosmogenic nuclides" like the radioactive Carbon 14 that is so often used to date material in archaeological settings.

We also run through a short list of the most often used dating techniques, how they work, what the problems are, what the ranges are, and what the margins of error are. We also look at the various assumptions and methods and theory behind these techniques.

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0:00.0	Stellar nucleosynthesis and radiometric dating.
0:05.6	Mystery not solved.
0:07.6	You're listening to Brothers of the Serpent podcast.
0:19.3	And welcome back, ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls,
0:22.8	Ato the Devens amongst the Serpents to Brothers of the Serpent podcast.
0:26.1	Coming to you, not live from the 10 by 10 by 10 tangent cube of science,
0:30.6	nestled amongst the dusty bones of an ancient seabed high top the Evers Plateau.
0:33.5	And this is episode 181.
0:36.5	That's right.
0:37.5	First so to the new year.
0:40.0	That's also right.
0:41.0	Is that also correct?
0:41.8	Yeah.
0:43.3	Got my,
0:44.7	somehow I got my days all mixed up.
0:46.2	Yeah, first episode of the new year, episode 181.
0:48.8	And we're going to be trying something a little different for this episode.
0:52.4	Just as once.
0:53.5	Just this one time. Never going to do this again. Nope as once. Just this one time.
0:55.3	Never going to do this again.
0:56.6	Nope.
0:56.9	It's been too much work.
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