He stands on the shoulders of giants to invent (not discover, big diff) what is essentially a doo dad that depends
on radioactive decay rates, particle physics etc...
Dating methods that use radioactive decay to determine age assume that
radioactive decay rates have always been constant.
How do you know that
radioactive decay rates were the same 1,000 years ago?»
A sharp drop in
the radioactive decay rate could alert the world to another Carrington Event.
I read your article on apparent seasonal changes in
radioactive decay rates (17 November, p 42).