Sentences with phrase «decays at a predictable rate»

But it is not, the same principles that make semiconductors work as predicted make isotopes decay at a predictable rate.

He simply could not understand how fossils could be dated and was just positive that man ate all the dinosaurs, and no matter how hard I tried to explain how sediment layers build up at consistent rates, how radio carbon decays at a predictable rate, how fossils form and why we know this, nothing I told him could convince him that T - rexs did not run the earth in the «time of Adam and Eve».

The scientists nailed down the Arizona rocks» ages by analyzing interspersed volcanic ash layers containing radioisotopes that decay at a predictable rate.