A Methodological Challenge to Conventional Geochronology
For 120 years, radiometric dating has operated under a foundational assumption: that daughter isotope concentrations at the time of rock formation were zero or negligibly small (r₀ ≈ 0). This assumption, introduced by Rutherford in 1906, has never been independently verified and is not mandated by physical law. Yet it underpins every radiometric age published in geological literature for over a century.
This book presents a systematic test of an alternative hypothesis: that initial daughter isotope ratios (r₀) were non-zero and represented designed initial conditions necessary for chemical and physical stability at the moment of creation.
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