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Right, so if it turned out to come from the future or 10 billion years ago on that scale, then it's likely extraterrestrial. As you say though, it's not good i

• schiffern 14y ago
  You're not getting it. You can't date anything non-biological using carbon dating. It's not that you get the wrong answer. You get no answer, since you don't know a-priori what the ratio of C12 to C14 was when the sample was formed. The equations are under-constrained. You can still use radiological dating with other elements (e.g. Uranium). >if it turned out to come from the future I don't even…
  • aneth4 14y ago
    Difficult to get what was not said in the comment I'm replying to. So fine, I don't know my dating techniques. Uranium radiological dating sounds fine. Why not that? >> if it turned out to come from the future > I don't even… have a sense of humor? It is certainly possible if we had a extra-terrestrial organic matter (which we don't) that it could test as coming from the future based on carbon ratios, though obviously it would not actually be from the future - thus "on that scale". I'm not sure if the same applies to Uranium radiological dating.
    • tripzilch 14y ago
      But we don't know future carbon ratios.