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RE: Methods of absolute (direct and chronometric) age determination : Part 2 - Potassium-argon dating and other Radioactive dating Methods
I remember a lab classes I was holding, where students observed the 40K line in a detector. I amde a super stupid joke at that time.
I asked the students not to open the detector (it was a kind of closed cylinder), and we discussed the 40K line they observed. I told them this line may come from the bones of one of them, and that I have thus two bad news for them: first, this is the proof one the students opened the detector. Second, this student is radioactive. One of them started to feel really really bad. (For my defense, I was 25 at that time, and thus young and stupid.) :D
OMG!!!!
@lemouth, you are lucky none of them claimed they changed into the Incredible HULK, actually that's a pretty awesome joke from a lecturers perspective that is :)
Thank you so much for reading my post, I was really concerned with the wording.
I don't think the word "stupid" can ever be used in the characterization of a particle physicist, well certainly not you, that is just my opinion :)
Really, it is good. Don't worry :)