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xkcd #3205: Carbon Dating

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This dating is corroborated by the presence of stone tools at the site, rather than earlier and less effective helium ones.

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Source: https://xkcd.com/3205/

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[-] nialv7@lemmy.world 34 points 1 month ago

a cosmologist wouldn't even know what carbon is. it's just some kind of metal.

[-] birdwing@lemmy.blahaj.zone 7 points 1 month ago

Still boggles my mind that literal matter came to be out of literally nothing but radiation and heat.

[-] Gathorall@lemmy.world 5 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

And now we can coax some matter to convert back into energy to produce power.

[-] Zwiebel@feddit.org 1 points 1 month ago

Let's time travel and take a look!

this post was submitted on 10 Feb 2026
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