@Helloandgoodbye,
Thanks for this useful reference.
http://www.creationscience.com/onlinebook/Radioactivity2.html#wp18936670
Quote:Neutron Activation Analysis. This routine, nondestructive technique can be used to identify chemical elements in an unknown material. Neutrons, usually from a nuclear reactor, bombard the material. Some nuclei that absorb neutrons become radioactive—are driven up the neutron-heavy side of the valley of stability. [See Figure 204 on page 390.] The decay characteristics of those “pumped up” nuclei then help identify the atoms present.
Neutron Stars. When a very massive star begins to run out of hydrogen and other nuclear fuels, it can collapse so suddenly that almost all its electrons are driven into nuclei. This produces a “sea of neutrons” and releases the immense energy of a supernova. What remains near the center of the gigantic explosion is a dense star, about 10 miles in diameter, composed of neutrons—a neutron star.
The Strong Force. Like charges repel each other, so what keeps a nucleus containing many positively charged protons from flying apart? A poorly understood force inside the nucleus acts over a very short distance to pull protons (and, it turns out, neutrons, as well) together. Nuclear physicists call this the strong force. Binding energy, described on page 388, is the result of work done by the strong force.
Two nuclei, pushed toward each other, initially experience an increasing repelling force, called the Coulomb force, because both nuclei have positive charges. However, if a voltage is accelerating many nuclei in one direction and electrons are flowing between them in the opposite direction, that repelling force is largely neutralized. Furthermore, both positive and negative flows will produce a reinforcing Z-pinch. [See Figure 202 on page 386.] If the voltage driving both flows is large enough, the Z-pinch brings the two nuclei close enough together so that the strong force merges them into one large nucleus.22
If the Z-pinch acts over a broad plasma flow, many nuclei could merge into superheavy nuclei—nuclei much heavier than any chemical element found naturally. Most merged nuclei would be unstable (radioactive) and would rapidly decay, because they would lie high on the proton-heavy side of the valley of stability. [See Figure 204 on page 390.]
While the strong force holds nuclei together and overcomes the repelling Coulomb force, four particular nuclei are barely held together: lithium-6 (6Li), beryllium-9 (9Be), boron-10 (10B), and boron-11 (11B). Slight impacts will cause their decay.23 The importance of these fragile isotopes will soon become clear.
I think this is showing we are about 4,500 years from the end of the flood. What happened during the flood, and how long the flood actually is the much bigger question that has to be answered.
I do believe the entire universe (when it was constructed in its initial perfection) was more like a universe-sized neutron star. This would make the flood event a universal event (The waters in the flood, are the waters of the Higgs field and the waters inside of matter, making the waters in Genesis more of a universal quantum mechanical fluid.) that introduced the process of universal inflation as the electron cloud (dark energy) and the swirling of galaxies. (dark matter).
John was describing this process in Rev 6:12
Quote: I watched as he opened the sixth seal. There was a great earthquake. The sun turned black like sackcloth made of goat hair, the whole moon turned blood red, 13 and the stars in the sky fell to earth, as figs drop from a fig tree when shaken by a strong wind. 14 The heavens receded like a scroll being rolled up, and every mountain and island was removed from its place.
the event described by "the sun turned black like sackcloth made of goat hair, the whole moon turned blood red, and the stars in the sky fell to earth, as figs drop from a fig tree when shaken by a strong wind. The heavens receded like a scroll being rolled up, and every mountain and island was removed from its place." Is what happened when the perfection of a universe constructed like a neutron star is disrupted every in all atoms. The higgs field and matter no longer interact as a universe wide perfectly entangled neutron star, and inflation is introduced as, dark energy in the electron cloud (as electrons no longer are part of the nucleus) and the swirling of the higgs field in the galaxies contributes further to the inflation. The changes in the spatial density where the universe is expanding because of the disruption of the perfect universe-wide entanglement is what we now experience as gravity. This change in order and entropy, is what is calculated by Erik Verlinde's Entropic Gravity.
How long this process took is questionable. The current inflation theory of the Borde-Guth-Vilenkin puts the age of the universe at approximately 14 billion years old. If their math is correct, and these inflation rates are adjusted to a starting point of a "perfect" neutron star type of beginning of the universe rather than an infinitesimally dense beginning of the universe, the age of the universe calculates out to about 4 billion years.
The atomic clocks (before the inflation of the universal flood event) would have operated in perfection and measured time differently than we do today. I haven't calculated that change in rate of time but we do know that time is experienced differently outside of large gravitational fields. For this reason your six thousand year story could be correct but is being measured according to pre flood atomic clocks. Our post-flood clocks need to be adjusted to coincide with the pre-flood clocks, which might be why the Earth looks much older to science. But your reference of helium release from rocks brings up an interesting fact.
https://answersingenesis.org/age-of-the-earth/6-helium-in-radioactive-rocks/ But at the same time there is this transition period "during the flood event" where the helium in radioactive rocks was not escaping at the rate it is today as pointed out in your other reference about neutrons and neutron stars.
This adjustment in current clocks to pre-flood clocks might make answers in Genesis more accurate and slightly more palatable to the broader scientific community. What do you think?
